Genesis 7:11
Noah was 600 when on the seventeenth day of the second month all the subterranean waters burst through the earth, and heavy rain poured down from the sky.
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10After seven days the floodwaters swept over the earth.
12Rain continued to fall on the earth for forty days and nights.
Cross References
Genesis 1:7So God made an expanse to divide the waters that were above from the waters that were below. And that's what happened.
Genesis 8:2The subterranean waters were closed off, and the heavy rainfall was stopped.
2 Kings 7:2The officer who was the king's assistant said to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord opened windows in heaven what you say couldn't happen!” Elisha replied, “You'll see it with your own eyes, but you won't get to eat any of it.”
Job 28:4They dig a mineshaft far from where people live or anyone ever goes. They swing from ropes that hang in the pits.
Job 38:37Who is clever enough to count the clouds? Who can turn heaven's water jars on their sides
Psalms 74:15You were the one who made springs and rivers flow with water. You made permanent rivers dry up.
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 →