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 every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

And he waited yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;

Fulfill her week, and we will give you this other also for the service which you shall serve with me yet seven other years.

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

For he makes small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to its vapor:

Also with moisture he loads the thick cloud: he scatters his bright cloud:

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 part was rained upon, and the part upon which it rained not withered.

Forty days

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

And every

And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, 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 breath of life, from under heaven; and everything that is in the earth shall die.

General references

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