Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noachʼs life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of Shomayim were opened.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
10And it came to pass after shivat hayamim, that the waters of the mabbul were upon ha'aretz.
12And the geshem was upon ha'aretz arba'im yom and arba'im lailah.
Cross References
Genesis 1:7And Elohim made the raki'a, and divided the waters under the raki'a from the waters which were above the raki'a; and it was so.
Genesis 8:2The ma'ayanot (springs) also of the tehom and the floodgates of Shomayim were stopped, and the geshem from Shomayim was restrained;
2 Kings 7:2Then an officer on whose arm HaMelech leaned answered the Ish HaElohim, and said, Hinei, even if Hashem would make windows in Shomayim, could this thing happen? And he said, Thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
Job 28:4He cuts out a shaft down far from the inhabitant; 1 forgotten of the regel, 1 they dangle, suspended, away from enosh. 1
Job 38:37Who can number the clouds in chochmah, 1 or who can tip the waterskins of Shomayim, 1
Psalms 74:15Thou didst break open the fountain and the flood; 1 Thou driedst up mighty naharot (rivers). 1
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 →