Genesis 7:6 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 7:6

Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth,.... When it began, for he was in his six hundred and first year when it ended, Gen 8:13 his eldest son was now an hundred years old, since when Noah was five hundred years old he begat children, Gen 5:32.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְנֹ֕חַ	ve.No.ach	and Noah	H5146 →
בֶּן־	ben-	[was] a son of	H1121 →
שֵׁ֥שׁ	shesh	six	H8337 →
מֵא֖וֹת	me.'ot	hundred<s>	H3967 →
שָׁנָ֑ה	sha.Nah	year[s]	H8141 →
וְהַמַּבּ֣וּל	ve.ham.ma.Bul	and the flood	H3999 →
הָיָ֔ה	ha.Yah	<it> was	H1961 →
מַ֖יִם	Ma.yim	water	H4325 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
הָאָֽרֶץ׃	ha.'A.retz	the earth	H776 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk6

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 8:13
In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that…
leads to
- Genesis 7:11
  In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Through
Genesis 5:32
After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
leads to
- Genesis 6:10
  And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- Genesis 10:21
  And sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth; Shem was the forefather of all the sons of Eber.
- Genesis 10:1
  This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.
- Genesis 9:18–19
  The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.
- Genesis 7:13
  On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—