Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the abyss were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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In Context
10And it came to pass after the seven days that the water of the flood came upon the earth.
12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Cross References
Genesis 1:7And God made the firmament, and God divided between the water which was under the firmament and the water which was above the firmament.
Genesis 8:2And the fountains of the deep were closed up, and the floodgates of heaven, and the rain from heaven was withheld.
2 Kings 7:2And the officer on whose hand the king rested, answered Elisha, and said, Behold, if the Lord shall make floodgates in heaven, might this thing be? and Elisha said, Behold, thou shalt see with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
Job 28:4There is a cutting off of the torrent by reason of dust: 1 So they that forget the right way are weakened; they are removed from among men. 1
Job 38:37And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom, 1 And has bowed the heaven down to the earth? 1
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 →