Genesis 7:17

Noah and the Flood

17 s Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

  1. Cross References
    Genesis 7:4
    "For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made."
    Genesis 7:12
    And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
    Genesis 8:6
    So it came to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
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