Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;
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10And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.
12And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Cross References
Genesis 1:7And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.
Genesis 8:2And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped.
2 Kings 7:2Then the captain whose arm was supporting the king said to the man of God, Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, would such a thing be possible? And he said, Your eyes will see it, but you will not have a taste of the food.
Job 28:4He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.
Job 38:37By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,
Psalms 74:15You made valleys for fountains and springs; you made the ever-flowing rivers dry.
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 →