Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Genesis 7:6 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 6. 6And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
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Quick Meaning
Noah is six hundred years old when the floodwaters arrive. The age links the event to the genealogy and begins the precise chronology that continues through the flood.
Read It With
- Genesis 7:1–24
Read verse 6 with 7:11 and 8:13. The general age becomes an exact year, month, and day when the waters begin, and Noah's next birthday helps mark the drying of the earth.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Noah's age begins the chronological frame before the entry report supplies the household and animal details.
Read Genesis 7:6–10 together
Why these verses belong together: Noah's age, household entry, creature entry, and fulfillment of the seven-day countdown prepare the dated opening of the waters.
Verse 6. 6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
Verse 7. 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.
Verse 8. 8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
Verse 9. 9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
Verse 10. 10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
What Remains True
Scripture can locate a decisive event within a person's long life without giving modern readers an uncontested date for the event in world chronology.
How It Can Shape Life
- Use chronological details for the role they actually play in a narrative, and do not make one age notice carry historical calculations the text does not supply.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Genesis 7:1–24 — The Flood Covers the EarthSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
Where care is needed
Genesis supplies Noah's relative age but not an uncontested conversion to a modern calendar year.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Reader-facing Scripture wording, verse numbering, paragraph data, and supplied-word markup.
Exact location: Pinned eBible/CrossWire standardized 1769 KJV corpus, Genesis 7:1–24
Open source ↗hebrew text morphology and lemma data
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible — Genesis
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project
Open Scriptures, Version 2.2 released 2021; repository inspected 2026
Supports: Righteousness, clean and unclean terms, repeated numerals, wipe-away language, deep and floodgates, entry formulas, prevail language, breath of life, dry land, survival, and 150 days.
Exact location: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, wlc/Gen.xml, Genesis 7:1–24
Open source ↗Translation and textual notes
NET Bible — Genesis with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, Digital edition accessed 2026
Supports: Prominent 'you,' seven or seven pairs, male-and-mate wording, seven days, forty days, paired entry, deep and heaven imagery, prevail language, fifteen cubits, breath of life, survival, and 150 days.
Exact location: NET Bible, Genesis 7:1–24 translator notes 1–39
Open NET Genesis 7 ↗