Parallel Verses

New Heart English Bible

The rain was on 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.

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.

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, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened. 12 The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship;


Cross References

Genesis 7:4

In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."

Genesis 7:17

The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.

Exodus 24:18

Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Deuteronomy 9:9

When I was gone up onto the mountain to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.

Deuteronomy 9:18

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 sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

Deuteronomy 10:10

I 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 would not destroy you.

1 Kings 19:8

And he got up 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 when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.

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