Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

and there fell a rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

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.

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, in the seventeenth day of the month, that same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened, 12 and there fell a rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 And the selfsame day went Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah's sons, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them in to the ark:

Cross References

Genesis 7:4

For seven days hence will I send rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights and will destroy all manner of things that I have made, from off the face of the earth."

Genesis 7:17

And the flood came forty days and forty nights upon the earth, and the water increased and bare up the ark and it was lift up from off the earth.

Exodus 24:18

And Moses went into the mountain. And Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

Deuteronomy 9:9

after that I was gone up into the mount, to fetch the tables of stone, the tables of covenant which the LORD made with you. And I abode in the hill forty days and forty nights and neither ate bread nor drank water.

Deuteronomy 9:18

And I fell before the LORD, even as at the first time - forty days and nights, and neither ate bread nor drank water - over all your sins which ye had sinned in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD and in provoking him.

Deuteronomy 10:10

And I tarried in the mount, even as at the first time forty days and forty nights, and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, so that the LORD would not destroy thee.

1 Kings 19:8

And he arose and did eat and drink and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights, unto Horeb the mount of God,

Matthew 4:2

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward a hungered.

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