Genesis 7:4

I will send rain. It will really pour down, day after day. For 40 days truly. The big flood will kill those outside the boat.”

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In The King James Version

For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

In Context

5Noah entered the boat because of God's word. And he took his wife and children and their wives and the animals and birds. They all entered.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:10After that a big rain fell.

Genesis 8:10Noah waited seven days. After that again he sent out the dove.

Genesis 29:27Wait for just a little while. Let us complete 7 days for this one, after that I will give you her younger sister for a wife. After that you will work for me for 7 years for that little one.”

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 →

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