Parallel Verses
NET Bible
And the rain fell on 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.
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.
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 that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons' three wives.
Cross References
Genesis 7:4
For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made."
Genesis 7:17
The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.
Exodus 24:18
Moses went into the cloud when he went up 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 stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.
Deuteronomy 9:18
Then I again fell down before the Lord for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the Lord as to enrage him.
Deuteronomy 10:10
As for me, I stayed at the mountain as I did the first time, forty days and nights. The Lord listened to me that time as well and decided not to destroy you.
1 Kings 19:8
So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
Matthew 4:2
After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.