Genesis 7:4

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Summary

For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

For

Forty days

Genesis 7:12

And every

Genesis 7:21

Genesis 6:17

General references

Genesis 7:17

Bible References

For

And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth.

and every shrub of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew; for Jehovah Elohim had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground.

And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always plead with Man; for he indeed is flesh; but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

And he waited yet other seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.

Fulfil the week with this one: then we will give thee the other one also, for the service that thou shalt serve me yet seven other years.

In making a weight for the wind, and meting out the waters by measure,

For he draweth up the drops of water: they distil in rain from the vapour which he formeth,

Also with plentiful moisture he loadeth the thick clouds, his light dispels the cloud;

And I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece of land was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.

Forty days

And the pour of rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

And every

And all flesh that moved on the earth expired, fowl as well as cattle, and beasts, and all crawling things which crawl on the earth, and all mankind:

For I, behold, I bring a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy all flesh under the heavens in which is the breath of life: everything that is on the earth shall expire.

General references

And the flood was forty days on the earth. And the waters increased, and bore up the ark; and it was lifted up above the earth.