Genesis 7:4
After seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy from the surface of the ground every living thing that I have made.’
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5Then Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.
Cross References
Genesis 6:3But the Lord said: ‘My spirit will not abide in people forever, because they are flesh; therefore they will live for only a hundred and twenty years.’
Genesis 6:13So God said to Noah, ‘I have determined to put an end to all living beings, for the earth is filled with their acts of injustice; I am going to destroy them from the earth.
Genesis 7:10After seven days, the flood waters came.
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.
Genesis 8:10Then he waited seven days longer and again sent out the dove from the ark.
Genesis 29:27Remain with this one during the marriage week, then we will give you the other also for the service which you will give me during seven more years.’
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 →