Genesis 7:10

Seven days later, it started to rain and a flood began to cover the earth.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

In Context

9males and females, came to Noah and then went into the boat, just as God told Noah that they would do.

11When Noah was 600 years old, ◄on the 17th day of the second month of that year/late in October►, all the water that is under the surface of the earth burst forth, and it began to rain so hard that it was as though a dam [MET] in the sky burst open.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:17Listen carefully! I am about to cause a flood to occur that will destroy every creature that lives beneath the sky. Everything on the earth will die.

Genesis 7:17It rained for 40 days and nights, and the flood increased. It flooded until the water lifted the boat above the ground.

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 →

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