Genesis 7:4
For 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.
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5And Noah did everything which the Lord said he was to do.
Cross References
Genesis 6:3And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 6:13And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth.
Genesis 7:10And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.
Genesis 7:17And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.
Genesis 8:10And after waiting another seven days, he sent the dove out again;
Genesis 29:27Let the week of the bride-feast come to its end and then we will give you the other in addition, if you will be my servant for another seven years.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 7:2-5
Noah Invited into the Ark. ( b. c. 2349.) 1 And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. 2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. 3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. 4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and… Read the whole commentary →