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.
For
Forty days
And every
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Bible References
For
Genesis 7:10
Seven days passed and the floodwaters came on the earth.
Genesis 2:5
No shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth. No plant of the field had yet sprung up, for Jehovah God had not sent rain on the earth. There was no man to work the ground.
Genesis 6:3
Jehovah said: My Spirit will not contend (judge) (plead) with man forever, for he is mortal and corrupt. Therefore his days will be a hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 8:10
He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
Genesis 29:27
Finish the week of wedding festivities with this daughter. Then we will give you the other one too. But you will have to work for me another seven years.
Job 28:25
When he gave the wind its force and measured the water in the sea,
Job 36:27
He draws up drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams.
Job 37:11
He loads the thick cloud with moisture and disperses with lighting.
Amos 4:7
I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest. I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One received rain. The other did not receive rain and it dried up.
Forty days
Genesis 7:12
Rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
And every
Genesis 7:21
Every living thing that moved on the earth perished: birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.
Genesis 6:17
I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens. Every creature that has the breath of life in it, everything on earth will perish.
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Genesis 7:17
The flood came upon the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark high above the earth.