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Genesis 7
1BSBThen the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
KJVAnd the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
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Matthew 24:37–39
37As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.
38For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.
Open Matthew 24:37–392 Peter 2:5–9
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;
6if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;
Open 2 Peter 2:5–9Genesis 6:9
9This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
Open Genesis 6:9Hebrews 11:7
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.
Open Hebrews 11:7Isaiah 3:10–11
10Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.
11Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
Open Isaiah 3:10–11Genesis 7:13
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—
Open Genesis 7:13
2BSBYou are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;
KJVOf every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
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Leviticus 10:10
10You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,
Open Leviticus 10:10Genesis 8:20
20Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Open Genesis 8:20Leviticus 11:1–47
1The Lord spoke again to Moses and Aaron, telling them,
2“Say to the Israelites, ‘Of all the beasts of the earth, these ones you may eat:
Open Leviticus 11:1–47Acts 10:11–15
11He saw heaven open and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners.
12It contained all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, as well as birds of the air.
Open Acts 10:11–15Genesis 7:8
8The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
Open Genesis 7:8Ezekiel 44:23
23They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.
Open Ezekiel 44:23
3BSBand seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.
KJVOf fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
4BSBFor seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
KJVFor 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.
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Genesis 6:13
13Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.
Open Genesis 6:13Genesis 7:17
17For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
Open Genesis 7:17Genesis 7:12
12And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Open Genesis 7:12Genesis 6:17
17And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.
Open Genesis 6:17Genesis 6:7
7So the Lord said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”
Open Genesis 6:7Psalm 69:28
28May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.
Open Psalm 69:28
5BSBAnd Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him.
KJVAnd Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him.
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Genesis 6:22
22So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.
Open Genesis 6:22Luke 8:21
21But He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and carry it out.”
Open Luke 8:21Exodus 39:32
32So all the work for the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, was completed. The Israelites did everything just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Open Exodus 39:32Exodus 39:42–43
42The Israelites had done all the work just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
43And Moses inspected all the work and saw that they had accomplished it just as the Lord had commanded. So Moses blessed them.
Open Exodus 39:42–43Psalm 119:6
6Then I would not be ashamed when I consider all Your commandments.
Open Psalm 119:6John 13:17
17If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
Open John 13:17
6BSBNow Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
KJVAnd Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
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Genesis 5:32
32After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Open Genesis 5:32Genesis 8:13
13In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
Open Genesis 8:13
7BSBAnd Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
KJVAnd 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.
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Luke 17:27
27People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
Open Luke 17:27Genesis 6:18
18But 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.
Open Genesis 6:18Genesis 7:1
1Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
Open Genesis 7:1Matthew 24:38
38For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.
Open Matthew 24:382 Peter 2:5
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;
Open 2 Peter 2:51 Peter 3:20
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.
Open 1 Peter 3:20
8BSBThe clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
KJVOf clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9BSBcame to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
KJVThere 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 7:16
16And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.
Open Genesis 7:16Genesis 2:19
19And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
Open Genesis 2:19Colossians 3:11
11Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.
Open Colossians 3:11Isaiah 11:6–9
6The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.
7The cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
Open Isaiah 11:6–9Isaiah 65:25
25The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,” says the Lord.
Open Isaiah 65:25Jeremiah 8:7
7Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the Lord.
Open Jeremiah 8:7
10BSBAnd after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.
KJVAnd it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
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Genesis 6:17
17And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.
Open Genesis 6:17Luke 17:27
27People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
Open Luke 17:27Genesis 7:4
4For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
Open Genesis 7:4Job 22:16
16They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
Open Job 22:16Genesis 7:17–20
17For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
18So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
Open Genesis 7:17–20Matthew 24:38–39
38For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.
39And they were oblivious until the flood came and swept them all away. So will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.
Open Matthew 24:38–39
11BSBIn the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
KJVIn the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
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Genesis 8:2
2The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
Open Genesis 8:2Malachi 3:10
10Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the Lord of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.
Open Malachi 3:10Proverbs 8:28–29
28when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth,
29when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.
Open Proverbs 8:28–29Amos 9:5–6
5The Lord God of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn—all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt—
6He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth. The Lord is His name.
Open Amos 9:5–62 Kings 7:19
19And the officer had answered the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” So Elisha had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”
Open 2 Kings 7:19Psalm 78:23–24
23Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.
24He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.
Open Psalm 78:23–24
12BSBAnd the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
KJVAnd the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
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Genesis 7:4
4For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
Open Genesis 7:4Matthew 4:2
2After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
Open Matthew 4:2Genesis 7:17
17For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
Open Genesis 7:17Exodus 24:18
18Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Open Exodus 24:18Deuteronomy 9:18
18Then I fell down before the Lord for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord and provoking Him to anger.
Open Deuteronomy 9:18Deuteronomy 9:9
9When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.
Open Deuteronomy 9:9
13BSBOn 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—
KJVIn the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
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Genesis 7:1
1Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
Open Genesis 7:1Genesis 6:18
18But 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.
Open Genesis 6:18Genesis 7:7–9
7And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
8The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
Open Genesis 7:7–91 Chronicles 1:4–28
4The sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
5The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
Open 1 Chronicles 1:4–28Hebrews 11:7
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.
Open Hebrews 11:7Genesis 10:21
21And sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth; Shem was the forefather of all the sons of Eber.
Open Genesis 10:21
14BSBthey and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.
KJVThey, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
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Genesis 7:8–9
8The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
9came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
Open Genesis 7:8–9Genesis 7:2–3
2You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;
3and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.
Open Genesis 7:2–3
15BSBThey came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.
KJVAnd they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
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Genesis 6:19–20
19And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.
20Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.
Open Genesis 6:19–20Isaiah 11:6
6The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.
Open Isaiah 11:6
16BSBAnd they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.
KJVAnd they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.
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Luke 13:25
25After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’
Open Luke 13:25Matthew 25:10
10But while they were on their way to buy it, the bridegroom arrived. Those who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was shut.
Open Matthew 25:10Genesis 7:2–3
2You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;
3and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.
Open Genesis 7:2–3Psalm 91:1–10
1He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
2I will say to the Lord, “You are my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
Open Psalm 91:1–102 Kings 4:4–5
4Then go inside, shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour oil into all these jars, setting the full ones aside.”
5So she left him, and after she had shut the door behind her and her sons, they kept bringing jars to her, and she kept pouring.
Open 2 Kings 4:4–5John 10:27–30
27My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
28I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.
Open John 10:27–30
17BSBFor forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
KJVAnd the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
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Genesis 7:4
4For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
Open Genesis 7:4Genesis 7:12
12And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Open Genesis 7:12
18BSBSo the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
KJVAnd the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
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Exodus 14:28
28The waters flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had chased the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.
Open Exodus 14:28Job 22:16
16They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
Open Job 22:16Psalm 104:26
26There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.
Open Psalm 104:26Psalm 69:15
15Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.
Open Psalm 69:15
19BSBFinally, the waters completely prevailed upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.
KJVAnd the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
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Psalm 104:6–9
6You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.
7At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—
Open Psalm 104:6–9Jeremiah 3:23
23Surely deception comes from the hills, and commotion from the mountains. Surely the salvation of Israel is in the Lord our God.
Open Jeremiah 3:23Psalm 46:2–3
2Therefore we will not fear, though the earth is transformed and the mountains are toppled into the depths of the seas,
3though their waters roar and foam and the mountains quake in the surge. Selah
Open Psalm 46:2–32 Peter 3:6
6through which the world of that time perished in the flood.
Open 2 Peter 3:6Job 12:15
15If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.
Open Job 12:15
20BSBThe waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.
KJVFifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
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Jeremiah 3:23
23Surely deception comes from the hills, and commotion from the mountains. Surely the salvation of Israel is in the Lord our God.
Open Jeremiah 3:23Psalm 104:6
6You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.
Open Psalm 104:6
21BSBAnd every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.
KJVAnd all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
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Genesis 6:13
13Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.
Open Genesis 6:13Genesis 6:17
17And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.
Open Genesis 6:17Genesis 7:4
4For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
Open Genesis 7:4Romans 8:20
20For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope
Open Romans 8:20Genesis 6:6–7
6And the Lord regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
7So the Lord said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”
Open Genesis 6:6–7Isaiah 24:19
19The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.
Open Isaiah 24:19
22BSBOf all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
KJVAll in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land , died.
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Genesis 2:7
7Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
Open Genesis 2:7Genesis 6:17
17And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.
Open Genesis 6:17
23BSBAnd every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.
KJVAnd every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive , and they that were with him in the ark.
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2 Peter 2:5
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;
Open 2 Peter 2:51 Peter 3:20
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.
Open 1 Peter 3:20Hebrews 11:7
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.
Open Hebrews 11:7Luke 17:26–27
26Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:
27People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
Open Luke 17:26–272 Peter 3:6
6through which the world of that time perished in the flood.
Open 2 Peter 3:6Matthew 24:37–39
37As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.
38For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.
Open Matthew 24:37–39
24BSBAnd the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.
KJVAnd the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
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Genesis 8:3–4
3The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.
4On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
Open Genesis 8:3–4