Genesis 7:4
I am going to make rain fall down from the sky in 7 days time. It will rain for 40 days and 40 nights so that everything I made will die and be washed away.”
Barkly (portions)
In The King James Version
In Context
5So Noah did everything the Lord said to him.
Cross References
Genesis 6:3Their children grew up to be big strong fighting men called Nef-ilim (Nephilim). And then for a lot of years, people told stories about what those great fighters did. But the Lord looked at what was happening and said, “I put my life spirit into people to keep them alive, but I will not let that spirit stay in them forever. They will only live for 120 years and then they will die.”
Genesis 6:13he said to Noah, “Look, nobody is living the way I want them to live. They are fighting all the time and people are getting hurt. I have made up my mind, I am going to kill everybody and every other living thing on this earth.”
Genesis 7:10Then 7 days later, the flood water came.
Genesis 7:17The flood water kept getting higher and higher for 40 days, and the boat started to float on the water, high above the ground.
Genesis 8:10Noah waited for 7 more days and then he let the pigeon fly out of the boat again.
Genesis 29:27I tell you what. At the end of one week I will let you marry Rachel as well. But you will have to stay and work for me for another 7 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 →