Genesis 7:4
For after only seven days more, I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will blot out every living substance that I have made from off the face of the earth.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
5And Noah did all just as the Lord had commanded him.
Cross References
Genesis 6:3And the Lord said, My Spirit shall not always strive for the sake of man, for that he is but flesh; yet his days [of grace] shall be a hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 6:13And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them, and I will destroy them with the earth.
Genesis 7:10And it came to pass, after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
Genesis 7:17And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
Genesis 8:10And he stayed yet another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.
Genesis 29:27Fulfill the week of this, and we will give thee this one also, for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other 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 →