Genesis 7:12 KJV
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Matthew Henry
- Noah, and his family and the living creatures, enter the ark, and the flood beginsThe call to Noah is very kind, like that of a tender father to his children to come in-doors when he sees night or a storm coming. Noah did not go into the...
Thompson Chains
- RainStarts here · next 1 Samuel 12:18 · 13 links
- Forty DaysSee the chain from Genesis 7:17 · 11 links
Cross References
- Genesis 7:4 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.
- Genesis 7:17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
- Exodus 24:18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
- Deuteronomy 9:9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
- Deuteronomy 9:18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
- Deuteronomy 10:10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.
- 1 Kings 19:8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
- Matthew 4:2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
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Topics
Timeline
- Timeline of the Bible2349–2348 BC · The Flood
Hebrew and Strong’s
- And the rain וַיְהִי wayhî Verb · qal sequential imperfect, third person masculine singular · with and הַגֶּשֶׁם haggešem גֶּשֶׁם Noun · masculine singular · with the
- was upon the earth עַל ʿal Preposition הָאָרֶץ hāʾāreṣ אֶרֶץ Noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the
- forty אַרְבָּעִים ʾarbāʿîm אַרְבָּעִים Number · masculine or feminine plural
- days יוֹם yôm יוֹם Noun · masculine singular
- and forty וְאַרְבָּעִים wĕʾarbāʿîm אַרְבָּעִים Number · masculine or feminine plural · with and
- nights לָיְלָה lāyĕlâ לַיִל Noun · masculine singular
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex, Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible · CC BY 4.0
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