#1 • Entering the Ark (vv. 1–9)
Book of Genesis 7:1, King James Version (1611)
“And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.”
Complete primary-source verses and theological commentary from the Book of Genesis, Chapter 7 — The Great Flood and Noah’s Ark.
“And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.”
“Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.”
“For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.”
“In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.”
“And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.”
“And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.”
“And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.”
“And Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.”