Genesis 7:6

6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.

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Genesis 7:6 in Other Translations

KJV

6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

ESV

6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth.

NLT

6 Noah was 600 years old when the flood covered the earth.

MSG

6 Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters covered the Earth.

CSB

6 Noah was 600 years old when the deluge came [and] water covered the earth.

Genesis 7:6 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 7:6

And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters
was upon the earth
When it began, for he was in his six hundred and first year when it ended, ( Genesis 8:13 ) his eldest son was now an hundred years old, since when Noah was five hundred years old he begat children, ( Genesis 5:32 ) .

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Genesis 7:6 In-Context

4 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 creature I have made.”

5 And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.

6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.

7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

8 Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground,

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