Genesis 7:11
In the six hundreth year of the life of Noe in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the flood gates of heaven were open:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
10And after seven days were passed, the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.
12And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Cross References
Genesis 1:7And God made a firmament, and divided the waters that were under the firmament, from those that were above the firmament, and it was so.
Genesis 8:2The fountains also of the deep, and the flood gates of heaven were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.
2 Kings 7:2Then one of the lords, upon whose hand the king leaned, answering the man of God, said: If the Lord should make hood-gates in heaven, can that possibly be which thou sayest? And he said: Thou shalt see it with thy eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
Job 28:4The flood divideth from the people that are on their journey, those whom the food of the needy man hath forgotten, and who cannot be come at.
Job 38:37Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the harmony of heaven to sleep?
Psalms 74:15Thou hast broken up the fountains and the torrents: thou hast dried up the Ethan rivers.
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 →