11In 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.
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 11-12)Here is, I. The date of this great event; this is carefully recorded, for the greater certainty of the story. 1. It was in the 600 th year of Noah’s life, which, by computation, appears to be 1656 years from the creation. The years of the old world are reckoned, not by the reigns of the giants, but the lives of the patriarchs; saints are of more account with God than princes. The righteous shall b...
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