Genesis 5:29

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Genesis 5:27–31 · Berean Standard Bible

27 So Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.

28 When Lamech was 182 years old, he had a son.

29 And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”

30 And after he had become the father of Noah, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters.

31 So Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then he died.

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Genesis 6:8

Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

Genesis 6:9

This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

Genesis 7:23

And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.

Genesis 9:24

When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

Isaiah 54:9

“For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.

Ezekiel 14:14

then even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 14:20

then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. Their righteousness could deliver only themselves.

Matthew 24:37

As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.

Luke 3:36

the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

Luke 17:26

Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:

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.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

1 Peter 3:20

who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.

2 Peter 2:5

if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;

Genesis 3:17

And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:18

Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

Genesis 4:11

Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

Genesis 4:12

When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”