Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
10And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.
12And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Cross References
Genesis 1:7So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so.
Genesis 8:2The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
2 Kings 7:2But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it.”
Job 28:4Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.
Job 38:37Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens
Psalms 74:15You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the 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 →