“Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Go out of the ship, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
- KJV Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
- NKJV “Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.
- NASB “Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.
- NLT “Leave the boat, all of you—you and your wife, and your sons and their wives.
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Quick answer
God commands Noah and his family to come out of the ark. The time of sheltering ends and new life begins.
Overview
Just as God had called Noah into the ark, he now calls him out, framing the whole rescue by his word. The whole family is again named, emphasizing God's saving of the household. This summons to come out into a cleansed world pictures the new life God grants to those he delivers.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Gen 7:13On 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—
- Ps 121:8The LORD will watch over your coming and going, both now and forevermore.
- Zech 9:11As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.
- Acts 16:37–39But Paul said to the officers, “They beat us publicly without a trial and threw us into prison, even though we are Roman citizens. And now do they want to send us away secretly? Absolutely not! Let them come themselves and escort us out!”
- Ps 91:11For He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.
- Gen 7:1Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
- Josh 4:16–18“Command the priests who carry the ark of the Testimony to come up from the Jordan.”
- Josh 4:10Now the priests who carried the ark remained standing in the middle of the Jordan until the people had completed everything the LORD had commanded Joshua to tell them, just as Moses had directed Joshua. The people hurried across,
- Dan 9:25–26Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.
- Josh 3:17The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed over the dry ground, until the entire nation had crossed the Jordan.
- Gen 7:7And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
- Acts 16:27–28When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, presuming that the prisoners had escaped.
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