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 shall be seven days; and the waters of the flood shall be upon the earth.

And every green thing of the field before it shall be in the earth, and every green herb of the field before it will spring up: for Jehovah God rained not upon the earth and not a man to work the earth.

And Jehovah will say, My spirit will not forever be low in man, for that he is flesh and his days were one hundred and twenty years.

And he will wait yet again other seven days, and he will add to send forth the dove from the ark.

Complete her seven, and we will give to thee also this for work which thou shalt work with me yet other seven years.

To make the weight for the wind; and he weighed the waters by measure.

For he will withhold the drops of water: they will pour out rain for its vapor.

Also by watering he will cast down the cloud: he will scatter the cloud of his light:

And I withheld from you the rain in yet three months to harvest: and I caused to rain upon one city, and upon one city I will not cause to rain: and one portion shall be rained upon, and the portion which shall not be rained upon, it shall dry up.

Forty days

And the rain shall be upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

And every

And all flesh shall die that creeping upon the earth, with birds and with cattle and with beast and with every creeping thing that creeping upon the earth, and every man.

And I, lo I, will bring in an inundation of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from underneath the heavens; all which is in the earth shall die.

General references

And the flood shall be forty days upon the earth, and the waters shall multiply, and shall take up the ark, and it shall be lifted up from above the earth.