Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this same day, were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
10And it came to pass, after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
12And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Cross References
Genesis 1:7And God made the expansion, and divided between the waters which were under the expansion and the waters which were above the expansion: and it was so.
Genesis 8:2The fountains also of the deep, and the windows of heaven were stopped; and the rain from heaven was restrained.
2 Kings 7:2Then answered the lord of the king, on whose hand he used to lean, the man of God, and said, Behold, will the Lord make windows in the heavens, that this thing shall be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thy eyes, but thereof shalt thou not eat.
Job 28:4He breaketh a channel far from the inhabited place; those of unsteady foot, the poorest of men move [there about].
Job 38:37Who ordaineth the skies with wisdom? or who emptieth out the bottles of heaven.
Psalms 74:15Thou didst cleave fountain and stream: thou didst dry up ever-flowing 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 →