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 the seventh day the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

and all the shrubs of the field before they were in the earth. And all the herbs of the field before they sprang: for the LORD God had yet sent no rain upon the earth, neither was there yet any man to till the earth.

And the LORD said, "My spirit shall not always strive with man, for they are flesh. Nevertheless I will give them yet space, a hundred and twenty years."

And he abode yet seven days more, and sent out the dove again out of the ark;

Pass out this week, and then shall this also be given thee for the service which thou shalt serve me yet seven years more.

When he weighed the winds, and measured the waters;

He turneth the water to small drops, he driveth his clouds

The clouds do their labour in getting moistness, the clouds pour down the rain.

When there were but three months unto the harvest, I withheld the rain from you. Yea, I rained upon one city, and not upon another; one piece of ground was moistured with rain, and the ground that I rained not upon, was dry.

Forty days

and there fell a rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

And every

And all flesh that moved on the earth, both birds, cattle and beasts, perished; with all that crept on the earth, and all men:

For behold, I will bring in a flood of water upon the earth to destroy all flesh from under heaven, wherein breath of life is, so that all that is in the earth shall perish.

General references

And the flood came forty days and forty nights upon the earth, and the water increased and bare up the ark and it was lift up from off the earth.