6And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-10)Here is Noah’s ready obedience to the commands that God gave him. Observe, 1. He went into the ark, upon notice that the flood would come after seven days, though probably as yet there appeared no visible sign of its approach, no cloud arising that threatened it, nothing done towards it, but all continued serene and clear; for, as he prepared the ark by faith in the warning given that the flood wo…
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