Genesis 6:17

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Genesis 6:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible

15 And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.

16 You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.

17 And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.

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.

19 And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.

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Genesis 6:13

Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.

Genesis 7:4

For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”

Genesis 7:21

And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.

Genesis 7:22

Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

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 9:9

“Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,

Exodus 14:17

And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. Then I will gain honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army and chariots and horsemen.

Leviticus 26:28

then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.

Deuteronomy 32:39

See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

Psalms 29:10

The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; the LORD is enthroned as King forever.

Isaiah 51:12

“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?

Ezekiel 5:8

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.

Ezekiel 6:3

You are to say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.

Ezekiel 34:11

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself will search for My flock and seek them out.

Ezekiel 34:20

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says to them: ‘Behold, I Myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

Hosea 5:14

For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them to pieces and then go away. I will carry them off where no one can rescue them.

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 7:17

For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.

Job 22:16

They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.

Psalms 93:3

The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.

Psalms 93:4

Above the roar of many waters— the mighty breakers of the sea— the LORD on high is majestic.

Psalms 107:34

and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.

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.

Amos 9:6

He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth. The LORD is His name.

Matthew 24:39

And they were oblivious, until the flood came and swept them all away. So will it be at the coming 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.

Genesis 2:7

Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 7:15

They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.

Genesis 6:7

So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”

Romans 5:12

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.

Romans 5:13

For sin was in the world before the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law.

Romans 5:14

Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.

Romans 5:21

so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:20

For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope

Romans 8:21

that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

Romans 8:22

We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.