Genesis 7:4
In 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.”
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In Context
5Noah [Rest] did everything that Adonai enjoined him.
Cross References
Genesis 6:3Adonai said, “My Ruach ·Spirit, Breath· will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”
Genesis 6:13God said to Noah [Rest], “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.
Genesis 7:10After the seven days, the flood waters came on the earth.
Genesis 7:17The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.
Genesis 8:10He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.
Genesis 29:27Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will 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 →