Genesis 7:4
For 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.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
5And Noah did,—according to all that Yahweh commanded him.
Cross References
Genesis 6:3And Yahweh said—My spirit shall not rule in man to times age—abiding, for that, he also, is flesh,—Yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 6:13So God said unto Noah: the end of all flesh, hath come in before me, for, filled, is the earth with violence, because of them,—behold me, then, destroying them with the earth.
Genesis 7:10And it came to pass, in the seven days,—that the waters of the flood, came on the earth.
Genesis 7:17And it came to pass, that the flood was forty days on the earth,—and the waters increased and bare up the ark, and it was lifted high above the earth,
Genesis 8:10Then stayed he yet seven days more,—and, again sent forth the dove out of the ark.
Genesis 29:27Fulfil the week of this one,—then must we give thee, the other one also, for the service wherewith thou shalt serve with me, yet seven years more.
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 →