Genesis 7:4
Because yet a time of seven days and I will cause rain to descend upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will blot out every subsistence which I have made upon all the face of the earth.
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
In Context
5And Noach did according to all that the Lord had instructed him.
Cross References
Genesis 6:3And the Lord said, This evil generation shall not stand before me forever, because they are flesh, and their works are evil. A term (or length) will I give them, an hundred and twenty years, if they may be converted.
Genesis 6:13And the Lord said to Noach, The end of all flesh cometh before Me, because the earth is filled with violences from the face of their wicked works; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Genesis 7:10And it was at the time of seven days, and the waters of the deluge were upon the earth.
Genesis 7:17And there was a deluge forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased, and took up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
Genesis 8:10And he prolonged yet seven days, and afterward added to send forth the dove from the ark.
Genesis 29:27Fulfil this week, and I will give thee also that, for the service that thou shalt serve with me yet seven other 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 →