But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
Parallel translations
- KJV But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
- BSB 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.
- NKJV But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall go into the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
- NASB But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
- NLT But I will confirm my covenant with you. So enter the boat—you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
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- Heb 11:7By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
- Gen 7:7Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.
- Gen 7:13In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth — the sons of Noah — and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship —
- Gen 17:7I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
- Isa 26:20Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.
- 2 Pet 2:5and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;
- Gen 9:9–16“As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
- 1 Pet 3:20who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
- Gen 7:1Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
- Gen 17:21But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”
- Gen 17:4“As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.
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