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

Seven days later the waters of the flood came on the earth.

No shrub of the field had yet grown on the land, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not made it rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground.

And the Lord said, “My Spirit will not remain with mankind forever, because they are corrupt.

Their days will be 120 years.”

So Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove from the ark again.

Complete this week of wedding celebration, and we will also give you this younger one in return for working yet another seven years for me.”

When God fixed the weight of the wind
and limited the water by measure,

For He makes waterdrops evaporate;
they distill the rain into its mist,

He saturates clouds with moisture;
He scatters His lightning through them.

I also withheld the rain from you
while there were still three months until harvest.
I sent rain on one city
but no rain on another.
One field received rain
while a field with no rain withered.

Forty days

and the rain fell on the earth 40 days and 40 nights.

And every

Every creature perished—those that crawl on the earth, birds, livestock, wildlife, and those that swarm on the earth, as well as all mankind.

“Understand that I am bringing a flood—floodwaters on the earth to destroy every creature under heaven with the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will die.

General references

The flood continued for 40 days on the earth; the waters increased and lifted up the ark so that it rose above the earth.