Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah [Rest]’s life, in the second month ( Iyar ·Light / I Am God your healer, 2·), on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky’s windows were opened.
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In Context
10After the seven days, the flood waters came on the earth.
12It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.
Cross References
Genesis 1:7God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so·.
Genesis 8:2The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
Psalms 74:15You opened up spring and stream. 2 You dried up mighty 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 →