Genesis 7:11
In 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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In Context
10After seven days, the flood waters came.
12it rained for forty days and forty nights.
Cross References
Genesis 1:7So God made the dome to separate the waters below from the waters which were above it. It was so.
Genesis 8:2the fountains of the deed were stopped and the windows of heaven closed, and the rain from heaven ceased,
Psalms 74:15It was you who did cleave the fountains and torrents; it was you who did dry the perennial streams.
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 →