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

It rained on the earth for 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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And the rain
גּשׁם 
Geshem 
Usage: 35

was upon the earth
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

ארבּעים 
'arba`iym 
Usage: 136

יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

and forty
ארבּעים 
'arba`iym 
Usage: 136

References

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Prayers for Genesis 7:12

Context Readings

The Flood

11 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 the heavens were opened. 12 The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. 13 In that 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 into the ark,

Cross References

Genesis 7:4

For yet in seven days, I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every substance that I have made I will destroy from off the face of the earth.

Genesis 7:17

And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters multiplied and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

Exodus 24:18

And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mount, and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

Deuteronomy 9:9

When I climbed up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, without eating bread or drinking water;

Deuteronomy 9:18

And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water because of all your sins in which ye sinned in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

Deuteronomy 10:10

And I stayed in the mount, like the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD did not desire to destroy thee.

1 Kings 19:8

And he arose and ate and drank and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights unto Horeb, the mount of God.

Matthew 4:2

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.

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