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Genesis 7:6

Genesis 7:6

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

And Noah was six hundred years old. Literally, a sum of six hundred years, i.e. in his 600th year (cf. ). The number six "is generally a Scriptural symbol of suffering. Christ suffered on the sixth day.

In the Apocalypse the sixth seal, the sixth trumpet, the sixth vial introduce critical periods of affliction" (Wordsworth). When the flood of waters was upon the earth.

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