Genesis 7:4
In seven days I'm going to make it rain for forty days and nights. I'm going to wipe out from the surface of the earth all the living creatures I made.”
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5Noah did exactly what the Lord ordered him to do.
Cross References
Genesis 6:3Then the Lord said, “My life-giving Spirit will not remain in these people forever, because they are only mortal. The time they have left will be 120 years.”
Genesis 6:13So God told Noah, “I have decided to put an end to all people on earth because they are all violent and lawless. I myself am going to destroy all of them, along with the earth.
Genesis 7:10After seven days the floodwaters swept over the earth.
Genesis 7:17The flood increased for forty days, lifting the ark so that it floated up from the earth.
Genesis 8:10He waited another seven days and sent the dove out from the ark again.
Genesis 29:27“Finish this week of wedding celebrations and then I'll give you the other daughter as well, as long as you work another seven years for me.”
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 →