Genesis 6:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.”
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“But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“But I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`And I have established My covenant with thee, and thou hast come in unto the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy son's wives with thee;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 6:18 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 7:1Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
- Genesis 7:7And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
- Genesis 7:13On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—
- Genesis 9:9“Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,
- Genesis 17:4“As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.
- Genesis 17:7I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
- Genesis 17:21But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”
- Isaiah 26:20Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.
- Hebrews 11:7By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
- 1 Peter 3:20who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.
- 2 Peter 2:5if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;
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