Genesis 7:11

In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

10And it cometh to pass, after the seventh of the days, that waters of the deluge have been on the earth.

12and the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:7And God maketh the expanse, and it separateth between the waters which [are] under the expanse, and the waters which [are] above the expanse: and it is so.

Genesis 8:2and closed are the fountains of the deep and the net-work of the heavens, and restrained is the shower from the heavens.

2 Kings 7:2And the captain whom the king hath, by whose hand he hath been supported, answereth the man of God and saith, 'Lo, Jehovah is making windows in the heavens — shall this thing be?' and he saith, 'Lo, thou art seeing it with thine eyes, and thereof thou dost not eat.'

Job 28:4A stream hath broken out from a sojourner, Those forgotten of the foot, They were low, from man they wandered.

Job 38:37Who doth number the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, Who doth cause to lie down,

Psalms 74:15Thou hast cleaved a fountain and a stream, Thou hast dried up perennial flowings.

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 →

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