Genesis 7:10

And when seven days had passed, the waters of the great flood inundated the earth.

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In The King James Version

And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

In Context

9two by two they were brought into the ark to Noah, male and female, just as the Lord had instructed Noah.

11In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great abyss were released, and the floodgates of heaven were opened.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:17Behold, I shall bring the waters of a great flood upon the earth, so as to put to death all flesh in which there is the breath of life under heaven. All things that are on the earth shall be consumed.

Genesis 7:17And the great flood occurred for forty days upon the earth. And the waters were increased, and they lifted the ark high above the land.

Matthew 24:38For it will be just as it was in the days before the flood: eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, even until that day when Noah entered into the ark.

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 →

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