KJV King James Version
And Noah [was] six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
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Genesis 7:6
And Noah [was] six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
WEB World English Bible
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
ASV American Standard Version
And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and Noah is a son of six hundred years, and the deluge of waters hath been upon the earth.
Surrounding context — Genesis 7
3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
6 And Noah [was] six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And 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.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are] not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
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Genesis 5:32And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.Genesis 8:13And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first [month], the first [day] of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
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