Genesis 7:11
In the six hundred (th) year of the life of Noe, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month (or on the seventeenth day of the month), all the wells of the great sea were broken, and the windows of (the) heaven (s) were opened,
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In Context
10And when seven days had passed, the waters of the great flood flowed on [the] earth.
12and rain was made on the earth (for) forty days and forty nights.
Cross References
Genesis 1:7And God made the firmament, and parted the waters that were under the firmament, from the waters that were on the firmament [or from these that were above the firmament]; and it was done so.
Genesis 8:2and the wells of the sea were closed, and the windows of (the) heaven (s) were closed, and (the) rains of (the) heaven (s) were ceased. (and the wells of the sea were closed, and the windows of the sky were closed, and the rains from the sky ceased.)
2 Kings 7:2And one of the dukes, on whose hand the king leaned, answered to the man of God, and said, (Yea), Though the Lord make also the gutters of heaven to be opened, whether that, that thou speakest, may be? And Elisha said, Thou shalt see it with thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof. (And one of the leaders, on whose hand the king leaned, answered to the man of God, and said, Even if the Lord shall make the gutters of the heavens to open up, what thou sayest could not be true! And Elisha said, Thou shalt see (it) with thine eyes, but thou shalt not eat any of it.)
Job 28:4from the people going in pilgrimage; it parteth those hills, which the foot of a needy man forgat, and hills without (a) way. (The stream departeth from the people going in pilgrimage; it parteth those hills, which the foot of the needy forgot, and the hills be without a way.)
Job 38:37Who shall tell out the reason of (the) heavens, and who shall make [the] according of heaven to sleep? (Who can count the clouds, and who can empty out all the rain from the heavens?)
Psalms 74:15Thou hast broken wells, and strands; thou madest dry the floods of Eitan. (Thou hast broken open the wells, or the springs, and the streams; thou hast dried up the mighty rivers.)
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 →