Genesis 7:10

After seven days, the flood waters came.

Open English Bible (UK)

In The King James Version

And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

In Context

9Two by two, male and female, they entered the ark as God had commanded Noah.

11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that very day, all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the windows of heaven were opened – and

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Cross References

Genesis 6:17For I am about to bring floods of water upon the earth to destroy from under heaven every living thing in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth will die.

Genesis 7:17The flood continued for forty days, and the waters increased and raised up the ark, and it was lifted high above the earth.

Matthew 24:38In those days before the flood they went on eating and drinking, marrying and being married, up to the very day on which Noah entered the ark.

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 →

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