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Genesis Chapter 6

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The chapter opens with God observing that the earth is filled with violence and violence among people, and He decides to wipe out humanity. He then commands Noah to build a large ark to save his family and pairs of every animal from the coming flood. The purpose of the flood is to cleanse the earth of its wickedness.

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(1) And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
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Genesis 1:28

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Genesis 31:43Genesis 27:46Jeremiah 29:6Ezekiel 16:55

(2) That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
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Genesis 4:26Exodus 4:22Exodus 4:23Deuteronomy 14:1Psalms 82:6Psalms 82:7Isaiah 63:16Malachi 2:11John 8:41John 8:42Romans 9:7Romans 9:8

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Jeremiah 29:6Genesis 31:50Genesis 34:21Judges 3:6Judges 21:7II Chronicles 11:21

(3) And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
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Numbers 11:17Nehemiah 9:30Isaiah 5:4Isaiah 63:10Jeremiah 11:7Jeremiah 11:11Acts 7:51Galatians 5:16Galatians 5:17I Thessalonians 5:19I Peter 3:18I Peter 3:19

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II Chronicles 2:10I Kings 6:20Ezekiel 45:12

(4) There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
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Numbers 13:33Deuteronomy 2:20Deuteronomy 2:21Deuteronomy 3:11I Samuel 17:4II Samuel 21:15II Samuel 21:16II Samuel 21:17II Samuel 21:18II Samuel 21:19II Samuel 21:20II Samuel 21:21

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II Chronicles 14:8Genesis 27:46Genesis 31:43Jeremiah 29:6Ezekiel 16:55

(5) And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
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Genesis 13:13Genesis 18:20Genesis 18:21Psalms 14:1Psalms 14:2Psalms 14:3Psalms 14:4Psalms 53:2Romans 1:28Romans 1:29Romans 1:30Romans 1:31

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Jeremiah 44:9

(6) And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
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Exodus 32:14Numbers 23:19Deuteronomy 32:36I Samuel 15:11I Samuel 15:29II Samuel 24:16I Chronicles 21:15Psalms 106:45Psalms 110:4Jeremiah 18:8Jeremiah 18:9Jeremiah 18:10

(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.
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Psalms 24:1Psalms 24:2Psalms 37:20Proverbs 10:27Proverbs 16:4Jeremiah 4:22Jeremiah 4:23Jeremiah 4:24Jeremiah 4:25Jeremiah 4:26Jeremiah 4:27Jeremiah 12:3

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Revelation 4:7Genesis 1:27Isaiah 54:16Acts 10:12Acts 11:6Leviticus 24:18

(8) But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
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Genesis 19:19Exodus 33:12Exodus 33:13Exodus 33:14Exodus 33:15Exodus 33:16Exodus 33:17Psalms 84:11Psalms 145:20Proverbs 3:4Proverbs 8:35Proverbs 12:2

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Romans 11:6Genesis 6:9I Corinthians 15:10

(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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Genesis 2:4Genesis 5:1Genesis 10:1Genesis 7:1Job 12:4Proverbs 4:18Ecclesiastes 7:20Ezekiel 14:14Ezekiel 14:20Habakkuk 2:4Luke 2:25Luke 23:50

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Matthew 1:17Genesis 5:32Genesis 7:9Genesis 7:13Isaiah 54:9Genesis 10:1

(10) And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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Genesis 5:32

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Genesis 5:32Genesis 7:13Genesis 9:18Genesis 10:1I Chronicles 1:4Genesis 4:18

(11) The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
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Genesis 7:1Genesis 10:9Genesis 13:13II Chronicles 34:27Luke 1:6Romans 2:13Romans 3:19Psalms 11:5Psalms 55:9Psalms 140:11Isaiah 60:18Jeremiah 6:7

(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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Genesis 6:8Genesis 18:21Job 33:27Psalms 14:2Psalms 33:13Psalms 33:14Psalms 53:2Psalms 53:3Proverbs 15:3Genesis 6:4Genesis 6:5Genesis 7:1

(13) And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
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Jeremiah 51:13Ezekiel 7:2Ezekiel 7:3Ezekiel 7:4Ezekiel 7:5Ezekiel 7:6Amos 8:2I Peter 4:7Genesis 6:4Genesis 6:11Genesis 6:12Genesis 49:5

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Genesis 6:9II Chronicles 20:23Ezekiel 28:16Daniel 9:26

(14) Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
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Matthew 24:38Luke 17:27I Peter 3:20Exodus 2:3

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Exodus 40:20I Samuel 5:8I Samuel 5:10Genesis 6:16Genesis 8:9Exodus 2:3

(15) And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
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Genesis 7:20Deuteronomy 3:11

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Ezekiel 41:2I Kings 7:2I Kings 6:2Ezekiel 40:48Exodus 38:1I Kings 6:20

(16) A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
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Genesis 8:6II Samuel 6:16II Kings 9:30Genesis 7:16Luke 13:25Ezekiel 41:16Ezekiel 42:3

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Exodus 40:20I Samuel 5:8I Samuel 5:10Exodus 25:21I Kings 8:7II Chronicles 5:8

(17) And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
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Genesis 6:13Genesis 7:4Genesis 7:21Genesis 7:22Genesis 7:23Genesis 9:9Exodus 14:17Leviticus 26:28Deuteronomy 32:39Psalms 29:10Isaiah 51:12Ezekiel 5:8

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Genesis 9:11Genesis 1:6Genesis 9:15Joshua 3:13Jeremiah 46:8Ezekiel 47:4

(18) But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
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Genesis 9:9Genesis 9:11Genesis 17:4Genesis 17:7Genesis 17:21Genesis 7:1Genesis 7:7Genesis 7:13Isaiah 26:20Hebrews 11:7I Peter 3:20II Peter 2:5

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Joshua 3:6I Samuel 4:4Exodus 40:20Joshua 6:6Joshua 8:33I Samuel 5:8

(19) And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
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Genesis 7:2Genesis 7:3Genesis 7:8Genesis 7:9Genesis 7:15Genesis 7:16Genesis 8:17Psalms 36:6

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Genesis 7:2Genesis 7:23Genesis 7:3Genesis 7:9Exodus 40:20I Samuel 5:8

(20) Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
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Genesis 1:20Genesis 1:21Genesis 1:22Genesis 1:23Genesis 1:24Acts 10:11Acts 10:12Genesis 1:28Genesis 2:19Genesis 7:8Genesis 7:9Genesis 7:10

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Genesis 7:14Leviticus 11:22Genesis 1:25Genesis 1:24Genesis 1:12Genesis 1:21

(21) And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
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Genesis 1:29Genesis 1:30Job 38:41Job 40:20Psalms 35:6Psalms 104:27Psalms 104:28Psalms 136:25Psalms 145:16Psalms 147:9Matthew 6:26

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Genesis 41:48Genesis 41:35Genesis 47:24I Samuel 14:24Proverbs 27:27Genesis 43:2

(22) Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
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Genesis 7:5Genesis 7:9Genesis 7:16Genesis 17:23Exodus 40:16Exodus 40:19Exodus 40:21Exodus 40:23Exodus 40:25Exodus 40:27Exodus 40:32Deuteronomy 12:32

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Genesis 6:9

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