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 cometh to pass, after the seventh of the days, that waters of the deluge have been on the earth.

and no shrub of the field is yet in the earth, and no herb of the field yet sprouteth, for Jehovah God hath not rained upon the earth, and a man there is not to serve the ground,

And Jehovah saith, 'My Spirit doth not strive in man -- to the age; in their erring they are flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.

And he stayeth yet other seven days, and addeth to send forth the dove from the ark;

fulfil the week of this one, and we give to thee also this one, for the service which thou dost serve with me yet seven other years.'

To make for the wind a weight, And the waters He meted out in measure.

When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour,

Yea, by filling He doth press out a cloud, Scatter a cloud doth His light.

And I also -- I have withheld from you the rain. While yet three months to harvest, And I have sent rain on one city, And on another city I do not send rain, One portion is rained on, And the portion on which it raineth not withereth.

Forty days

and the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights.

And every

and expire doth all flesh that is moving on the earth, among fowl, and among cattle, and among beasts, and among all the teeming things which are teeming on the earth, and all mankind;

And I, lo, I am bringing in the deluge of waters on the earth to destroy all flesh, in which is a living spirit, from under the heavens; all that is in the earth doth expire.

General references

And the deluge is forty days on the earth, and the waters multiply, and lift up the ark, and it is raised up from off the earth;