Genesis 7:12
(And it came to pass that the heavy rain was on the earth,—forty days and forty nights.)
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 7:4For in seven days more, I, am sending rain on the earth, forty days and forty nights,—so will I wipe out all the living things which I have made, from off the face of the ground.
Exodus 24:18And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud and ascended into the mountain. And it came to pass that Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Deuteronomy 9:18Then lay I prostrate before Yahweh as at the first, forty days and forty nights, food, did I not eat, and water, did I not drink,—because of all your sin which ye had sinned, in doing the thing that was wicked, in the eyes of Yahweh. to provoke him to anger.
1 Kings 19:8So he arose, and did eat and drink,—and journeyed, in the strength of that eating, forty days and forty nights, as far as the mountain of God—Horeb.
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 →