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 expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.

And behold! I, even I, am bringing a flood of waters upon the earth in order to destroy all flesh (in which is the breath of life) from under the heavens. Everything which is in the earth shall die.

Also the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and rain from heaven was restrained.

He opens a shaft far from the visitor; they are forgotten by man's foot; they hang far away from men, they swing to and fro.

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as it came from the womb?

He gathered the waters of the sea like a heap, setting the depths in storehouses.

You divide the fountain and the flood; You dry up mighty rivers.

when He set the clouds above; when He made the strong fountains of the deep;

The earth is breaking, breaking! The earth is crashing, crashing! The earth is tottering, tottering!

Do you not fear Me? says Jehovah. Will you not tremble at My presence, I who have placed the sand for the boundary of the sea by a never-ending decree, so that it cannot pass it? And though they toss themselves, yet they cannot prevail; though its waves roar, yet they cannot pass over it?

When He utters His voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and He causes the mists to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings with rain and brings forth the wind out of His treasures.

For so says the Lord Jehovah: When I shall make you a ruined city, like the cities that have no inhabitants; when I shall bring up the deep on you, and great waters shall cover you;

And the Lord Jehovah of Hosts is He who touches the land, and it shall melt, and all who dwell in it shall mourn. And all of it shall rise up like the Nile, and sink down like the Nile of Egypt.

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

For when they shall say, Peace and safety! Then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail upon a woman with child. And they shall not escape.

Windows

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

Also the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and rain from heaven was restrained.

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

though He had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of the heavens;

Bring all the tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. And test Me now with this, says Jehovah of Hosts, to see if I will not open the windows of Heaven for you, and pour out a blessing for you, until there is not enough room.

General references

And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

which the clouds pour down and drop on man plentifully.