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Genesis 7:12
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Then the rain came upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
And the rayne was vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes.
And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
and reyn was maad on erthe fourti daies and fourti nyytis.
And the raine was vpon the earth, fortie dayes, and fortie nights.
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
and there came a rayne vpon ye earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes.
The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.
And the pour of rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
And the raine was vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes.
And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
and rain fell on the earth for forty days and nights.
The rain was on the eretz forty days and forty nights.
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
The rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights.
And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
The rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
(And it came to pass that the heavy rain was on the earth, - forty days and forty nights.)
And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
And the rain came upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
The rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
and the rain fell on the earth 40 days and 40 nights.
and the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
forty: Genesis 7:4, Genesis 7:17, Exodus 24:18, Deuteronomy 9:9, Deuteronomy 9:18, Deuteronomy 10:10, 1 Kings 19:8, Matthew 4:2
Reciprocal: Genesis 1:6 - Let there Job 36:28 - General Psalms 46:2 - though
Cross-References
"For in seven days I am going to cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy (blot out, wipe away) every living thing that I have made from the surface of the earth."
The flood [the great downpour of rain] was forty days and nights on the earth; and the waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it floated [high] above the land.
Moses entered the midst of the cloud and went up the mountain; and he was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
"When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food or drink water.
"Then, as before, I fell down before the LORD for [another] forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food or drink water, because of all the sin you had committed by doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger.
"And I stayed on the mountain, like the first time, forty days and nights, and the LORD listened to me at that time also; the LORD was not willing to destroy you.
So he got up and ate and drank, and with the strength of that food he traveled forty days and nights to Horeb (Sinai), the mountain of God.
After He had gone without food for forty days and forty nights, He became hungry.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights,.... So long it was falling upon it, after the windows of heaven were opened. Aben Ezra would have it, that all things were in such confusion, during the flood, that there was no difference between day and night, since, it is said, "day and night shall not cease any more"; and that after the waters ceased, then Noah knew that forty days and nights had passed, for God had revealed this secret to him; but the text seems more to make against him than for him.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
- XXV. The Flood
The date is here given, at which the flood commenced and the entrance into the ark was completed. “In seven days.” On the seventh day from the command. “In the second month.” The primeval year commenced about the autumnal equinox; we may say, on the nearest new moon. The rains began about a month or six weeks after the equinox, and, consequently, not far from the seventeenth of the second month. “All the fountains of the great deep, and the windows of the skies.” It appears that the deluge was produced by a gradual commotion of nature on a grand scale. The gathering clouds were dissolved into incessant showers. But this was not sufficient of itself to effect the overwhelming desolation that followed. The beautiful figure of the windows of the skies being opened is preceded by the equally striking one of the fountains of the great deep being broken up. This was the chief source of the flood. A change in the level of the land was accomplished. That which had emerged from the waters on the third day of the last creation was now again submerged. The waters of the great deep now broke their bounds, flowed in on the sunken surface, and drowned the world of man, with all its inhabitants. The accompanying heavy rain of forty days and nights was, in reality, only a subsidiary instrument in the deluging of the land. We may imagine the sinking of the land to have been so gradual as to occupy the whole of these forty days of rain. There is an awful magnificence in this constant uplifting of the billows over the yielding land.
Genesis 7:13-16
There is a simple grandeur in the threefold description of the entrance of Noah and his retinue into the ark, first in the command, next in the actual process during the seven days, and, lastly, in the completed act on the seventh day. “Every living thing after its kind” is here unaccompanied with the epithet רעה rā‛âh, evil, or the qualifying term of the land or of the field, and therefore may, we conceive, be taken in the extent of Genesis 6:20; Genesis 7:2-3, Genesis 7:6. At all events the whole of the wild animals did not need to be included in the ark, as their range was greater than that of antediluvian man or of the flood. “And the Lord shut him in.” This is a fitting close to the scene. The whole work was manifestly the Lord’s doing, from first to last. The personal name of God is appropriately introduced here. For the Everlasting now shows himself to be the causer or effecter of the covenant blessing promised to Noah. In what way the Lord shut him in is an idle question, altogether unworthy of the grandeur of the occasion. We can tell nothing more than what is written. We are certain that it would be accomplished in a manner worthy of him.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Genesis 7:12. The rain was upon the earth — Dr. Lightfoot supposes that the rain began on the 18th day of the second month, or Marcheshvan, and that it ceased on the 28th of the third month, Cisleu.
