KJV King James Version
These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man [and] perfect in his generations, [and] Noah walked with God.
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Genesis 6:9
These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man [and] perfect in his generations, [and] Noah walked with God.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
WEB World English Bible
This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
ASV American Standard Version
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and perfect in his generations: Noah walked with God.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
These are births of Noah: Noah is a righteous man; perfect he hath been among his generations; with God hath Noah walked habitually.
Surrounding context — Genesis 6
6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
9 These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man [and] perfect in his generations, [and] Noah walked with God.
10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
אֵ֚לֶּהH428 · el.lehtheseתּוֹלְדֹ֣תH8435 · to.le.dahgenerationנֹ֔חַH5146 · no.achNoahנֹ֗חַH5146 · no.achNoahאִ֥ישׁH376 · ishmanצַדִּ֛יקH6662 · tsad.diqrighteousתָּמִ֥יםH8549 · ta.mimunblemishedהָיָ֖הH1961 · ha.yahto beבְּדֹֽרֹתָ֑יוH1755 · dorgenerationאֶת־H854 · etwithהָֽאֱלֹהִ֖יםH430 · e.lo.himGodהִֽתְהַלֶּךְ־H1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentנֹֽחַ׃H5146 · no.achNoah
Cross-references
Hebrews 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.Luke 1:6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.Galatians 3:11But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, [it is] evident: for, The just shall live by faith.2 Peter 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;Genesis 5:24And Enoch walked with God: and he [was] not; for God took him.Genesis 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.Ezekiel 14:14Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver [but] their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.Genesis 5:22And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:Job 1:1There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name [was] Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.Genesis 17:1And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I [am] the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.Genesis 2:4These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,1 Peter 2:5Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.Ecclesiastes 7:20For [there is] not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.Ezekiel 14:20Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, [were] in it, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall [but] deliver their own souls by their righteousness.Acts 10:22And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.Job 1:8And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that [there is] none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?Habakkuk 2:4Behold, his soul [which] is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.Genesis 48:15And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,
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