In 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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- WEB In 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 —
- BSB On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—
- NKJV On the very same day Noah and Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark—
- NASB On this very same day Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark,
- NLT That very day Noah had gone into the boat with his wife and his sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—and their wives.
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Quick answer
On that very day Noah, his sons, and their wives entered the ark. The whole appointed family is safely inside before the waters prevail.
Overview
The deliberate naming of each family member stresses that all whom God appointed to be saved entered the ark. They are inside precisely on the day the flood begins, sheltered before judgment closes in. This careful timing pictures the security of those whom God brings into his place of refuge.
Cross-references & the web
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- Gen 6:18But 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.
- Gen 7:1And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
- Heb 11:7By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
- Gen 5:32And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- Gen 9:18–19And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
- Gen 10:1–2Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
- 1 Chr 1:4–28Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- Gen 10:21Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.
- 1 Pet 3:20Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
- Gen 10:6And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
- 2 Pet 2:5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
- Gen 6:10And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
- Gen 7:7–9And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
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