Genesis 7:11
In 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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In The King James Version
In Context
10And when seven days had passed, the waters of the great flood inundated the earth.
12And rain came upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Cross References
Genesis 1:7And God made a firmament, and he divided the waters that were under the firmament, from those that were above the firmament. And so it became.
Genesis 8:2And the fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of heaven were closed. And the rain from heaven was restrained.
2 Kings 7:2And one of the leaders, upon whose hand the king leaned, responding to the man of God, said, “Even if the Lord will open the floodgates of heaven, how can what you say possibly be?” And he said, “You will see it with your own eyes, and you will not eat from it.”
Job 28:4The burning separates a pilgrim people from those who have been forgotten by the feet of the destitute man and from the unapproachable.
Job 38:37Who can describe the rules of the heavens, or who can put to rest the harmony of heaven?
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 →