Genesis 7:4
Do this because seven days from now I will cause rain to fall on the earth. It will rain constantly for 40 days and nights. By doing that, I will destroy everything that I have made that is on the earth.”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
3Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird from all over the earth to keep them alive.
5Noah did everything that Yahweh told him to do.
Cross References
Genesis 6:3Then Yahweh said, “ I will not allow my Spirit to keep people alive forever (OR, the breath of life will not remain in people forever). They will die eventually. They will live not more than 120 years before they die (OR, there will be only 120 more years before they die).”
Genesis 6:13So God said to Noah, “I have decided to destroy everyone, because all over the earth people are acting violently toward each other. So I am about to get rid of them as well as everything else on the earth.
Genesis 7:10Seven days later, it started to rain and a flood began to cover the earth.
Genesis 7:17It rained for 40 days and nights, and the flood increased. It flooded until the water lifted the boat above the ground.
Genesis 8:10Noah waited seven more days. Then he sent the dove out of the boat again.
Genesis 29:27After we finish this week of celebration, we will let you marry the younger one also. But in return, you must pay for Rachel by working for me for another seven 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 →