Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day, all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the windows of heaven were opened.
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10It came about that after the seven days, the waters of the flood came upon the earth.
12The rain began and fell on the earth for 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. It was so.
Genesis 8:2The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and it stopped raining.
2 Kings 7:2Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “See, even if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, can this thing happen?” Elisha replied, “See, you will watch it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it.”
Job 28:4He breaks open a shaft away from where people live, 1 places that are forgotten by anyone's foot. 1 He hangs far away from people; he swings to and fro. 1
Job 38:37Who can number the clouds by his skill? 1 Who can pour out the water skins of the sky 1
Psalms 74:15You broke open springs and streams; 1 you dried up flowing 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 →