Genesis 6:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

Genesis 6:21 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 136:25
Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Genesis 1:29-30
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. …
Psalms 145:16
Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
Job 38:41
Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
Job 40:20
Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-21)

Here it appears indeed that Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. God’s favour to him was plainly intimated in what he said of him, Gen. 6:8-10, where his name is mentioned five times in five lines, when once might have served to make the sense clear, as if the Holy Ghost took a pleasure in perpetuating his memory; but it appears much more in what he says to him in these verses—the information…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

17-22. And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood--The repetition of the announcement was to establish its certainty (Ge 41:32). Whatever opinion may be entertained as to the operation of natural laws and agencies in the deluge, it was brought on the world by God as a punishment for the enormous wickedness of its inhabitants.