Genesis 7:7
New International Version
And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

New Living Translation
He went on board the boat to escape the flood—he and his wife and his sons and their wives.

English Standard Version
And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

Berean Standard Bible
And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.

New American Standard Bible
Then Noah and his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the waters of the flood.

NASB 1995
Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood.

NASB 1977
Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood.

Amplified Bible
Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark to escape the flood waters.

Christian Standard Bible
So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives entered the ark because of the floodwaters.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives entered the ark because of the waters of the flood.

American Standard Version
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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Noah entered, and his children, and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him into the ark from before the waters of the flood.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And then went in Noe and his sons and his wife, and his sons' wives with him into the ark, because of the water of the flood.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Noe went in and his sons, his wife and the wives of his sons with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

English Revised Version
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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives went into the ship to escape the floodwaters.

Good News Translation
He and his wife, and his sons and their wives, went into the boat to escape the flood.

International Standard Version
Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives entered the ark with him before the flood waters arrived.

JPS Tanakh 1917
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.

Literal Standard Version
And Noah goes—and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him—into the Ark, out of the presence of the waters of the flood;

Majority Standard Bible
And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

New American Bible
Together with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, Noah went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.

NET Bible
Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives because of the floodwaters.

New Revised Standard Version
And Noah with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

New Heart English Bible
Noah went into the vessel with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.

Young's Literal Translation
And Noah goeth in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, unto the ark, from the presence of the waters of the deluge;

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Entering the Ark
6Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth. 7And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. 8The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground…

Cross References
Matthew 24:38
For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.

Luke 17:27
People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

Genesis 6:18
But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark--you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.

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--


Treasury of Scripture

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.

Genesis 7:1,13-15
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…

Genesis 6:18
But 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.

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

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Genesis 7
1. Noah, his family and the living creatures enter the ark.
6. The flood begins.
17. The increase of the flood for forty days.
21. All flesh is destroyed by it.
24. Its duration of 150 days.














Verse 7. - And Noah went in. I.e. began to go in a full week before the waters came (vide ver. 10). "A proof of faith and a warning to the world." And his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him. In all eight persons (1 Peter 3:20); whence it is obvious that "each had but one wife, and that polygamy, as it began among the Cainites, was most probably confined to them" (Poole). Into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. Literally, from the face of the waters, being moved with fear and impelled by faith (Hebrews 11:7).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And Noah
נֹ֗חַ (nō·aḥ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 5146: Noah -- 'rest', patriarch who survived the flood

entered
וַיָּ֣בֹא (way·yā·ḇō)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

the ark,
הַתֵּבָ֑ה (hat·tê·ḇāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8392: A box, chest

along with
אִתּ֖וֹ (’it·tōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among

his sons
וּ֠בָנָיו (ū·ḇā·nāw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1121: A son

and his wife
וְאִשְׁתּ֧וֹ (wə·’iš·tōw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

and his sons’
בָנָ֛יו (ḇā·nāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1121: A son

wives,
וּנְשֵֽׁי־ (ū·nə·šê-)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

to escape
מִפְּנֵ֖י (mip·pə·nê)
Preposition-m | Noun - common plural construct
Strong's 6440: The face

the waters
מֵ֥י (mê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

of the flood.
הַמַּבּֽוּל׃ (ham·mab·būl)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3999: Flood -- a deluge


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