King James Version
Genesis 7:5 in the King James Version says “And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.”
Genesis 7:5 · KJV
Of fowls also of the air by sevens , the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. by sevens: Heb. seven seven
For 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. destroy: Heb. blot out
And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“according unto all that the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
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