Genesis 7:12

And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

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In The King James Version

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

In Context

11In 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;

13On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark;

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Cross References

Genesis 7:4For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth.

Exodus 24:18And Moses went up the mountain, into the cloud, and was there for forty days and forty nights.

Deuteronomy 9:18And I went down on my face before the Lord, as at the first, for forty days and forty nights, without taking food or drinking water, because of all your sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord and moving him to wrath.

1 Kings 19:8So he got up and took food and drink, and in the strength of that food he went on for forty days and nights, to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 7:12-13

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. Here is, I. The date of this great event; this is carefully recorded, for the greater certainty of the story. 1. It was in the 600th year of Noah's life, which, by computation, appears to be 1656 years from the creation. The years of the old world are… Read the whole commentary →

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