Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
New American Standard Bible
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.
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.
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
Topics
Interlinear
'erets
Yowm
References
Word Count of 20 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 were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 In the selfsame 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 seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will destroy from off the face of the ground.
Genesis 7:17
And the flood was forty days upon the earth. And the waters increased, 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 onto the mount. And Moses was on the mount forty days and forty nights.
Deuteronomy 9:9
When I was gone up onto the mount to receive the tablets of stone, even the tablets of the covenant which LORD made with you, then I abode on the mount forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.
Deuteronomy 9:18
And I fell down before LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of LORD, to provoke him to anger.
Deuteronomy 10:10
And I stayed on the mount as at the first time, forty days and forty nights, and LORD hearkened to me that time also: LORD would not 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 to Horeb the mount of God.
Matthew 4:2
And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward he was hungry.