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Genesis 7:5–9

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And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him.
And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
¶ And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
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From verse 5

  1. Genesis 6:22Rank 1 from verse 5
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    22Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

  2. Luke 8:21Rank 2 from verse 5
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    21And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.

  3. Exodus 39:32Rank 3 from verse 5
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    32¶ Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did they.

  4. Exodus 39:42–43Rank 4 from verse 5
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    42According to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work.

    43And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the Lord had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.

  5. Psalms 119:6Rank 5 from verse 5
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    6Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.

  6. Exodus 40:16Rank 6 from verse 5
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    16Thus did Moses: according to all that the Lord commanded him, so did he.

  7. Hebrews 5:8Rank 7 from verse 5
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    8Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;

  8. John 13:17Rank 8 from verse 5
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    17If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

  9. Matthew 3:15Rank 9 from verse 5
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    15And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.

  10. Philippians 2:8Rank 10 from verse 5
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    8And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

  11. John 2:5Rank 11 from verse 5
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    5His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.

  12. John 8:28–29Rank 12 from verse 5
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    28Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.

    29And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.

From verse 6

  1. Genesis 5:32Rank 1 from verse 6
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    32And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

  2. Genesis 8:13Rank 2 from verse 6
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    13¶ And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

From verse 7

  1. Luke 17:27Rank 1 from verse 7
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    27They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

  2. 2 Peter 2:5Rank 2 from verse 7
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    5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

  3. Genesis 6:18Rank 3 from verse 7
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    18But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

  4. Genesis 7:1Rank 4 from verse 7
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    1AND 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.

  5. Matthew 24:38Rank 5 from verse 7
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    38For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

  6. 1 Peter 3:20Rank 6 from verse 7
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    20Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

  7. Genesis 7:13–15Rank 7 from verse 7
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    13In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

    14They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.

    15And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.

  8. Hebrews 11:7Rank 8 from verse 7
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    7By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

  9. Hebrews 6:18Rank 9 from verse 7
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    18That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

  10. Proverbs 22:3Rank 10 from verse 7
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    3A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

From verse 9

  1. Genesis 2:19Rank 1 from verse 9
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    19And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

  2. Genesis 7:16Rank 2 from verse 9
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    16And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.

  3. Acts 10:11–12Rank 3 from verse 9
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    11And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:

    12Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.

  4. Colossians 3:11Rank 4 from verse 9
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    11Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

  5. Galatians 3:28Rank 5 from verse 9
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    28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

  6. Isaiah 11:6–9Rank 6 from verse 9
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    6The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

    7And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

    8And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.

    9They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

  7. Isaiah 65:25Rank 7 from verse 9
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    25The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.

  8. Jeremiah 8:7Rank 8 from verse 9
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    7Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.

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Genesis 7:5

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Genesis 7:6

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old

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1. Advanced in age or existing for a long time. 2. Of the stated or specified age. 3. Ancient, former, previous, or worn.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

upon

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1. Marks the person, place, thing, or basis to which something is related: on or onto; above or over; toward or against as the target of action, speech, thought, attention, or force; resting on, assigned to, or affecting as a state, gift, burden, duty, guilt, or judgment; supported by or based on; or one placed, added, or repeated on or after another. 2. With a stated time or occasion, or a preceding event, at that time or point, or at or after that event: on, at, when, then, or following it.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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earth

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Sense 1: The world in distinction from heaven. Sense 2: Dry land, ground, soil, or dust. Sense 3: A land, region, or its inhabitants.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Genesis 7:7

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

ark

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1. The sacred chest called the ark of God, the testimony, or the covenant, made for Israel and set in the tabernacle or temple; the ark of God's testament is also seen in the heavenly temple. 2. The great vessel built by Noah in which his household and living creatures were preserved through the flood. 3. The small covered vessel of bulrushes in which the infant Moses was laid.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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Genesis 7:8

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fowls

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1. Winged creatures, especially birds. 2. In the law's phrase “fowls that creep,” winged creeping creatures.

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every

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Each individual or member of the class, group, place, time, side, or kind named; all distributively.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

upon

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1. Marks the person, place, thing, or basis to which something is related: on or onto; above or over; toward or against as the target of action, speech, thought, attention, or force; resting on, assigned to, or affecting as a state, gift, burden, duty, guilt, or judgment; supported by or based on; or one placed, added, or repeated on or after another. 2. With a stated time or occasion, or a preceding event, at that time or point, or at or after that event: on, at, when, then, or following it.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

earth

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Sense 1: The world in distinction from heaven. Sense 2: Dry land, ground, soil, or dust. Sense 3: A land, region, or its inhabitants.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Genesis 7:9

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

ark

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1. The sacred chest called the ark of God, the testimony, or the covenant, made for Israel and set in the tabernacle or temple; the ark of God's testament is also seen in the heavenly temple. 2. The great vessel built by Noah in which his household and living creatures were preserved through the flood. 3. The small covered vessel of bulrushes in which the infant Moses was laid.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

female

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Of the sex that bears offspring; a woman or female animal.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Cawdrey 1604

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7:1AND 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.

7:2Of 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.

7:3Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

7:4For 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.

7:5And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him.

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7:6And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

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7:7¶ And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

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7:8Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,

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7:9There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

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