Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
- BSB So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.
- NKJV Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did.
- NASB So Noah did these things; according to everything that God had commanded him, so he did.
- NLT So Noah did everything exactly as God had commanded him.
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- John 15:14You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
- Exod 40:16Moses did so. According to all that Yahweh commanded him, so he did.
- John 2:5His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.”
- Matt 7:24–27“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
- Gen 7:5Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.
- Heb 11:7–8By 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.
- Deut 12:32Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.
- Gen 7:16Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then Yahweh shut him in.
- Exod 40:23He set the bread in order on it before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- 1 Jn 5:3–4For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
- Gen 7:9went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
- Gen 17:23Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.
- Exod 40:27and he burned incense of sweet spices on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exod 40:25He lit the lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exod 40:19He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tabernacle above on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exod 40:32When they went into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exod 40:21He brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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