Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
King James Version
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Holman Bible
and the rain fell on the earth 40 days and 40 nights.
International Standard Version
and it rained throughout the earth for 40 days and 40 nights.
A Conservative Version
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
American Standard Version
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Amplified
And it rained upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Bible in Basic English
And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Darby Translation
And the pour of rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
Jubilee 2000 Bible
And there was rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Julia Smith Translation
And the rain shall be upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
King James 2000
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the rain came upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Modern King James verseion
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and there fell a rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
NET Bible
And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
New Heart English Bible
The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
The Emphasized Bible
(And it came to pass that the heavy rain was on the earth, - forty days and forty nights.)
Webster
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
World English Bible
The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
Youngs Literal Translation
and the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights.
Themes
Ark » Noah's » Animals saved in
Clouds » Frequently the instrument of God's judgments
the Deluge » Produced by » Forty days' incessant rain
Rain » Instances of extraordinary » Time of the flood
Rain » Forty days of, at the time of the great flood of noah
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 21 Translations in Genesis 7:12
Prayers for Genesis 7:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Flood
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened. 12 The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. 13 On the very same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark,
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 7:4
"For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made."
Genesis 7:17
Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.
Exodus 24:18
Moses entered the midst of the cloud as he went up to the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Deuteronomy 9:9
"When I went up to the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the LORD had made with you, then I remained on the mountain forty days and nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.
Deuteronomy 9:18
"I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger.
Deuteronomy 10:10
"I, moreover, stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights like the first time, and the LORD listened to me that time also; the LORD was not willing to destroy you.
1 Kings 19:8
So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Matthew 4:2
And after He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry.