Genesis 7:12
It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.
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In The King James Version
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 7:4In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground.”
Exodus 24:18Moses [Drawn out] entered into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses [Drawn out] was on the mountain forty days and forty nights. 1 Haftarah Mishpatim ·Taking leave ·Judgments, Rulings·: 1 Yirmeyahu / Jeremiah 34:8-22, 33:25-26 1 B'rit Hadashah ·New Covenant·: Luke 7:1-8:3
Deuteronomy 9:18I fell down before Adonai, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your habitual sins ·missing the marks· which you sinned ·deviated (from the standard goal)·, in doing that which was evil in Adonai’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 7:12-13
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. Here is, I. The date of this great event; this is carefully recorded, for the greater certainty of the story. 1. It was in the 600th year of Noah's life, which, by computation, appears to be 1656 years from the creation. The years of the old world are… Read the whole commentary →