Genesis 7:11

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Summary

In 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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Windows

Malachi 3:10

General references

Genesis 8:14

Job 36:28

Bible References

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And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; and everything that is in the earth shall die.

The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

He breaks open a shaft away from the inhabitants; even in places forgotten of the foot: they are gone away from men, they swing to and fro.

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap: he lays up the depth in storehouses.

You did break open the fountain and the flood: you dried up mighty rivers.

When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:

The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is torn asunder, the earth is shaken exceedingly.

Fear you not me? says the LORD: will you not tremble at my presence, who has placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though its waves toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

When he utters his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth: he makes lightnings with rain, and brings forth the wind out of his storehouses.

For thus says the Lord GOD; When I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon you, and great waters shall cover you;

And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that touches the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell in it shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like the river; and shall be drowned, as by the river of Egypt.

For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

Windows

And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it.

Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

Bring you all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

General references

And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

Which the clouds do drop and pour upon man abundantly.