Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.
Parallel translations
- KJV And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
- BSB And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
- NKJV And Noah did according to all that the Lord commanded him.
- NASB So Noah acted in accordance with everything that the Lord had commanded him.
- NLT So Noah did everything as the Lord commanded him.
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Quick answer
Noah did everything that God commanded him. His obedience is again emphasized as the flood approaches.
Overview
This repeated note of complete obedience highlights Noah's steadfast faith as the moment of judgment nears. Obedience here is the fruit of trusting God's word about an unseen catastrophe. Noah's example commends a faith that acts fully on God's commands, the kind of faith that ultimately rests in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Gen 6:22Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him.
- Luke 8:21But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it.”
- Ps 119:6Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.
- Exod 39:32Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished. The children of Israel did according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses; so they did.
- Exod 39:42–43According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.
- Matt 3:15But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.
- John 13:17If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
- Phil 2:8And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.
- Exod 40:16Moses did so. According to all that Yahweh commanded him, so he did.
- Heb 5:8though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.
- John 2:5His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.”
- John 8:28–29Jesus therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.
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From the first promise that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent (3:15), through Abraham's blessing to all nations and Judah's coming ruler, Genesis sows every seed that flowers in Christ — the true offspring, the better Adam, the ram caught for Isaac.
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