Genesis 7:11

American Standard Version (1901)

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

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  • Gen 8:2 : 2 the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
  • Gen 1:7 : 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
  • Ezek 26:19 : 19 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and the great waters shall cover thee;
  • Mal 3:10 : 10 Bring ye the whole tithe into the store-house, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now herewith, saith Jehovah of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough [to receive it] .
  • 2 Kgs 7:19 : 19 and that captain answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if Jehovah should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? and he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof:
  • Job 28:4 : 4 He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn; They are forgotten of the foot; They hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.
  • Job 38:8-9 : 8 Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb; 9 When I made clouds the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddling-band for it, 10 And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors, 11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
  • Ps 33:7 : 7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap: He layeth up the deeps in store-houses.
  • Ps 74:15 : 15 Thou didst cleave fountain and flood: Thou driedst up mighty rivers.
  • Ps 78:23-24 : 23 Yet he commanded the skies above, And opened the doors of heaven; 24 And he rained down manna upon them to eat, And gave them food from heaven.
  • Prov 8:28-29 : 28 When he made firm the skies above, When the fountains of the deep became strong, 29 When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;
  • Isa 24:19 : 19 The earth is utterly broken, the earth is rent asunder, the earth is shaken violently.
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 Fear ye not me? saith Jehovah: will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.
  • Jer 51:16 : 16 when he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries.
  • Matt 24:38 : 38 For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,
  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.
  • Amos 9:5-6 : 5 For the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, [is] he that toucheth the land and it melteth, and all that dwell therein shall mourn; and it shall rise up wholly like the River, and shall sink again, like the River of Egypt; 6 [ it is] he that buildeth his chambers in the heavens, and hath founded his vault upon the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth; Jehovah is his name.
  • Gen 6:17 : 17 And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is in the earth shall die.
  • 2 Kgs 7:2 : 2 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if Jehovah should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

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    10And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

  • Gen 7:12-13
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    12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

    13In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

  • Gen 8:13-15
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    13And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dried.

    14And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry.

    15And God spake unto Noah, saying,

  • Gen 8:1-7
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    1And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;

    2the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

    3and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.

    4And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

    5And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

    6And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:

    7and he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

  • Gen 7:16-20
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    16And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him: and Jehovah shut him in.

    17And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

    18And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

    19And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered.

    20Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

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    4For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the ground.

    5And Noah did according unto all that Jehovah commanded him.

    6And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

    7And 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.

  • Gen 7:23-24
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    23And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only was left, and they that were with him in the ark.

    24And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.

  • Gen 6:17
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    17And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is in the earth shall die.

  • Gen 1:7
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    7And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

  • Luke 17:27
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    27They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

  • 2 Pet 3:6
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    6by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

  • Gen 8:10-11
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    10And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;

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    1And Jehovah said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.