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

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Smith

Prayers for Genesis 7:12

Context Readings

The Flood

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the sky were opened. 12 The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. 13 Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.

Cross References

Genesis 7:4

Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.

Genesis 7:17

The flood came upon the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark high above the earth.

Exodus 24:18

Moses entered the midst of the cloud as he went up to the mountain. He was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Deuteronomy 9:9

When I went up on the mountain to get the stone tablets, the tablets of the promise that Jehovah made to you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights without food or water.

Deuteronomy 9:18

I fell down before Jehovah. Like the first, forty days and nights I did not eat or drink. This was because of all your sin you committed in doing what was evil in the sight of Jehovah to provoke Him to anger.

Deuteronomy 10:10

I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights like the first time. Jehovah listened to me this time also. Jehovah was not willing to destroy you.

1 Kings 19:8

So he got up and took food and drink. He was strengthened to go for forty days and forty nights, to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Matthew 4:2

He fasted forty days and nights, and was very hungry.

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