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NASB | Genesis 7:6 ¶ Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water came upon the earth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 7:6 ¶ Noah was six hundred years old when the flood (deluge) of water came on the earth [covering all of the land]. |
Subject: How old was Noah when began building Ark |
Bible Note: EdB: Your interpretation may be right, but there are problems with fixing the exact date that Noah began work on the ark. With Gen.6:3, the verse seems to announce that the period of grace between God's declaration of judgment and its arrival would be 120 years, but this does not prove conclusively that Noah began immediately to construct the ark. The reason I give for this view is, when looking at the following verses, the context may well lead us to arrive at a different conclusion. In v.8 we are told that Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord; in v.10, that Noah became the father of three sons; and in v.14 God commands Noah to build the ark. Now if these verses are given in chronological sequence, then the actual construction did not begin until after Noah's sons were born, and they were not born until Noah had attained the age of 500 (Gen.5:32) and Noah was 600 when the flood came. Therefore, if this sequence of events is valid, the actual construction time was somewhat less than 100 years. The fact is, we really don't know for sure just how long Noah was engaged in carrying out God's command to build the ark, but we do know that he did, and that the ark weathered the storm, and that had Noah not obeyed God and built an ark, and a good one at that, we wouldn't be here talking about it! --Hank |
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