Genesis 7:6 - Plain English Version

^6-7 Noah was 600 years old at the time that he went into the big boat to be safe from the flood. Noah, and his wife, and his 3 sons, and their wives too, they all went into the big boat.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Noah was 600 years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth or land.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

⁶ Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters arrived on earth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And he was six hundred years old when the waters of the great flood inundated the earth.

Genesis 7:6 Cross References

Genesis 5:32

Noah lived a long time too. After he was 500 years old, he had 3 sons. They were called Shem, and Ham, and Jafeth.

Genesis 7:11

Noah was 600 years old at the time that the flood water came. It came on the 17th day of the 2nd month of that year. Noah, and his wife, and his sons, and their wives too, they all went into the big boat. The names of Noah’s sons were Shem, and Ham, and Jafeth, and they each had a wife. They all went into the boat with all the animals. There were wild animals, and animals that are not wild, and animals that crawl around on the ground. And all the birds were there too. There were males and females of every bird and animal on that big boat. All of the different sorts of animals went into that big boat with Noah. They went in 2 at a time, just like God told Noah. And after the last animal went into the boat with Noah and his family, God shut the door. Then, on that same day, the rain came out of the sky. It rained really hard all the time. It was like God opened up a big window in the sky, and rain poured down. And water came up from springs, and from everywhere under the ground too. It kept on raining all the time for 40 days.

Genesis 8:13

Noah was 601 years old at that time. The water was still going down, and on the 1st day of the new year, Noah took off some of the roof from the big boat and looked around. He could see that the ground was getting dry.