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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.
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Forty days
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Bible References
For
Genesis 7:10
And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
Genesis 2:5
And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth: and there was not a man to till the ground;
Genesis 6:3
And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 8:10
And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
Genesis 29:27
Fulfil the week of this one, and we will give thee the other also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
Job 28:25
To make a weight for the wind: Yea, he meteth out the waters by measure.
Job 36:27
For he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil in rain from his vapor,
Job 37:11
Yea, he ladeth the thick cloud with moisture; He spreadeth abroad the cloud of his lightning:
Amos 4:7
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 was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
Forty days
Genesis 7:12
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
And every
Genesis 7:21
And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both birds, and cattle, and beasts, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
Genesis 6:17
And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon this earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is in the earth shall die.
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Genesis 7:17
And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.