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 after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.

In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.

And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.

And after waiting another seven days, he sent the dove out again;

Let the week of the bride-feast come to its end and then we will give you the other in addition, if you will be my servant for another seven years.

When he made a weight for the wind, measuring out the waters;

For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,

The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;

And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.

Forty days

And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

And every

And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man.

For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will come to an end.

General references

And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.