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Genesis 7:11 KJV
Genesis · chapter 7 · verse 11
In 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.Genesis 7:11 · King James Version
Genesis 7:11 in context
9There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
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.
12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
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- seventeenthshebaʻsevenH7651 →
- seventeenthʻâsârtenH6240 →
- hundredthmêʼâha hundredH3967 →
- Noah'sNôachNoach, the patriarch of the floodH5146 →
- secondshênîyproperly, doubleH8145 →
- monthchôdeshthe new moonH2320 →
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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 600th year of Noah's life, which, by computation, appears to be 1656 years from the creation.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-12