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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Hastings

Morish

Smith

Prayers for Genesis 7:12

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 that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. 12 The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. 13 On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark,

Cross References

Genesis 7:4

For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground."

Genesis 7:17

The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

Exodus 24:18

Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Deuteronomy 9:9

When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.

Deuteronomy 9:18

Then I lay prostrate before the LORDas before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke him to anger.

Deuteronomy 10:10

"I myself stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights, and the LORD listened to me that time also. The LORD was unwilling to destroy you.

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 after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.

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