Genesis 7:6

And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

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Interpretation

The call to Noah is very kind, like that of a tender father to his children to come in-doors when he sees night or a storm coming. Noah did not go into the ark till God bade him, though he knew it was to be his place of refuge.

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This thought runs through Genesis 7:5-6.

Genesis 7:5 Genesis 7:6

Glossary

Noah Person: Rest, (Heb. Noah) the grandson of Methuselah ( Gen. 5:25-29 ), who was for two hundred and fifty years contemporary with Adam, and the son of Lamech, who was about fifty years old at the time of Adam’s death.