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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Malachi 3:10

General references

Genesis 8:14

Job 36:28

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So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so.

I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,

The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.

Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.

"Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb,

He piles up the water of the sea; he puts the oceans in storehouses.

You broke open the spring and the stream; you dried up perpetually flowing rivers.

when he established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep grew strong,

The earth is broken in pieces, the earth is ripped to shreds, the earth shakes violently.

"You should fear me!" says the Lord. "You should tremble in awe before me! I made the sand to be a boundary for the sea, a permanent barrier that it can never cross. Its waves may roll, but they can never prevail. They may roar, but they can never cross beyond that boundary."

When his voice thunders, the waters in the heavens roar. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.

"For this is what the sovereign Lord says: When I make you desolate like the uninhabited cities, when I bring up the deep over you and the surging waters overwhelm you,

The sovereign Lord who commands armies will do this. He touches the earth and it dissolves; all who live on it mourn. The whole earth rises like the River Nile, and then grows calm like the Nile in Egypt.

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

Now when they are saying, "There is peace and security," then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will surely not escape.

Windows

So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so.

The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.

An officer who was the king's right-hand man responded to the prophet, "Look, even if the Lord made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?" Elisha said, "Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!"

He gave a command to the clouds above, and opened the doors in the sky.

"Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse so that there may be food in my temple. Test me in this matter," says the Lord who rules over all, "to see if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until there is no room for it all.

General references

And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.

which the clouds pour down and shower on humankind abundantly.