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Genesis 6:21 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Take with you some of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them.” "
Genesis 6:21
Verse in Context
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19 Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.
20 Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive.
21 Take with you some of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them.”
22 Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him.
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Genesis 6:1
"When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,"
Genesis 6:2
"God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives."
Genesis 6:3
"The LORD said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”"
Genesis 6:4
"The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown."
Genesis 6:5
"The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil."
Genesis 6:6
"The LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart."
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