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 upon the earth.

and every plant of the field before it was in the earth and all the grass of the field before it grew, for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and neither was there a man to till the ground.

And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for certainly he is flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.

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

Fulfil her week, and we will give thee the other also for another seven years of service which thou shalt serve with me.

To make a weight for the wind and to supply water by measure,

For he detains the drops of water; when the rain pours down rain out of its vapour,

In addition to this, with clarity he wearies the thick clouds; and he scatters them with his light.

And also I have withheld 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 was rained upon, and the piece upon which it did not rain withered.

Forty days

And there was rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

And every

And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of beasts and of animals and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth and every man;

And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, in which is the spirit of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

General references

And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters multiplied and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.