Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
10And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Cross References
Genesis 1:7And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. And it was so.
Genesis 8:2Also the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.
2 Kings 7:2Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if LORD should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shall see it with thine eyes, but shall not eat of it.
Job 28:4He breaks open a shaft away from where men sojourn, [paths] forgotten by the foot. They hang afar from men; they swing to and fro.
Job 38:37Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven
Psalms 74:15Thou split fountain and flood. Thou dried up mighty rivers.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 7:6-11
The Deluge. ( b. c. 2349.) 5 And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him. 6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. 7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.… Read the whole commentary →