Genesis 7:4
For in yet seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living being which I have made will I destroy from the ground.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
5And Noah did according to all that Jehovah had commanded him.
Cross References
Genesis 6:3And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always plead with Man; for he indeed is flesh; but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 6:13And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is full of violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Genesis 7:10And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth.
Genesis 7:17And the flood was forty days on the earth. And the waters increased, and bore up the ark; and it was lifted up above the earth.
Genesis 8:10And he waited yet other seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.
Genesis 29:27Fulfil the week [with] this one: then we will give thee the other one also, for the service that thou shalt serve me yet seven other 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 →