Genesis 7:12
Rain fell for 40 days. It was falling hard, it really poured, it kept on falling.
Nyangumarta (portions)
In The King James Version
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
In Context
11And from under the ground a flood came bubbling up also.
Cross References
Genesis 7:4I will send rain. It will really pour down, day after day. For 40 days truly. The big flood will kill those outside the boat.”
Matthew Henry on Genesis 7:12-13
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. Here is, I. The date of this great event; this is carefully recorded, for the greater certainty of the story. 1. It was in the 600th year of Noah's life, which, by computation, appears to be 1656 years from the creation. The years of the old world are… Read the whole commentary →