Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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
And every
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Bible References
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Genesis 7:10
And it happened after seven days that the waters of the flood came into being on the earth.
Genesis 2:5
And every shrub of the field was not yet on the earth, and every plant of the field had not yet sprung up, for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground.
Genesis 6:3
And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, in his erring; he is flesh. Yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 8:10
And he waited yet another seven days. And again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.
Genesis 29:27
Fulfill her week, and we will give you this one also for the service which you shall serve with me still another seven years.
Job 28:25
making a weight for the winds, and measuring out the waters by measure.
Job 36:27
For He draws up the drops of water; they distill rain into mist,
Job 37:11
Also He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters the lightning cloud,
Amos 4:7
And I have also withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest. And I caused rain to fall on one city and caused it not to rain on another city; one piece was rained on, and the piece on which it did not rain dried up.
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 that moved upon the face of the earth died, of birds, of cattle, of animal, and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth; and every man,
Genesis 6:17
And behold! I, even I, am bringing a flood of waters upon the earth in order to destroy all flesh (in which is the breath of life) from under the heavens. Everything which is in the earth shall die.
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Genesis 7:17
And the flood was upon the earth forty days. And the waters increased and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.