Genesis 7:4
For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
5And Noe did all things which the Lord had commanded him.
Cross References
Genesis 6:3And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 6:13He said to Noe: The end of all flesh is come before me, the earth is filled with iniquity through them, and I will destroy them with the earth.
Genesis 7:10And after seven days were passed, the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.
Genesis 7:17And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from earth.
Genesis 8:10And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove out of the ark.
Genesis 29:27Make up the week of days of this match: and I will give thee her also, for the service that thou shalt render me other 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 →