Genesis 7:4

for after other seven days I am sending rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and have wiped away all the substance that I have made from off the face of the ground.'

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

In Context

3also, of fowl of the heavens seven pairs, a male and a female, to keep alive seed on the face of all the earth;

5And Noah doth according to all that Jehovah hath commanded him:

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Cross References

Genesis 6:3And Jehovah saith, 'My Spirit doth not strive in man — to the age; in their erring they [are] flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.

Genesis 6:13And God said to Noah, 'An end of all flesh hath come before Me, for the earth hath been full of violence from their presence; and lo, I am destroying them with the earth.

Genesis 7:10And it cometh to pass, after the seventh of the days, that waters of the deluge have been on the earth.

Genesis 7:17And the deluge is forty days on the earth, and the waters multiply, and lift up the ark, and it is raised up from off the earth;

Genesis 8:10And he stayeth yet other seven days, and addeth to send forth the dove from the ark;

Genesis 29:27fulfil the week of this one, and we give to thee also this one, for the service which thou dost serve with me yet seven other years.'

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 →

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