Genesis 7:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth.

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  • Gen 7:12 : 12 And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
  • Gen 7:17 : 17 And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.
  • Gen 6:7 : 7 And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them.
  • Gen 6:13 : 13 And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth.
  • Gen 6:17 : 17 For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will come to an end.
  • Gen 8:12 : 12 And after seven days more, he sent the dove out again, but she did not come back to him.
  • Job 22:16 : 16 Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:
  • Job 28:25 : 25 When he made a weight for the wind, measuring out the waters;
  • Ps 69:28 : 28 Let their names be taken from the book of the living, let them not be numbered with the upright.
  • Amos 4:7 : 7 And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.
  • Rev 3:5 : 5 He who overcomes will be dressed in white, and I will not take his name from the book of life, and I will give witness to his name before my Father, and before his angels.
  • Gen 7:10 : 10 And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.
  • Job 37:11-12 : 11 The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light; 12 And it goes this way and that, round about, turning itself by his guiding, to do whatever he gives orders to be done, on the face of his world of men,
  • Gen 7:21-23 : 21 And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man. 22 Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end. 23 Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.
  • Gen 8:10 : 10 And after waiting another seven days, he sent the dove out again;
  • Job 36:27-32 : 27 For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain, 28 Flowing down from the sky, and dropping on the peoples. 29 And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent? 30 See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it. 31 For by these he gives food to the peoples, and bread in full measure. 32 He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.
  • Gen 29:27-28 : 27 Let the week of the bride-feast come to its end and then we will give you the other in addition, if you will be my servant for another seven years. 28 And Jacob did so; and when the week was ended, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel for his wife.
  • Exod 32:32-33 : 32 But now, if you will give them forgiveness--but if not, let my name be taken out of your book. 33 And the Lord said to Moses, Whoever has done evil against me will be taken out of my book.
  • Gen 2:5 : 5 In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.
  • Gen 6:3 : 3 And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 7:5-24
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    88%

    5 And Noah did everything which the Lord said he was to do.

    6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.

    7 And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.

    8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth,

    9 In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said.

    10 And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.

    11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;

    12 And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

    13 On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark;

    14 And with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every sort of thing which goes on the earth, and every sort of bird.

    15 They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.

    16 Male and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and the ark was shut by the Lord.

    17 And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.

    18 And the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters.

    19 And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered.

    20 The waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all the mountains were covered.

    21 And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man.

    22 Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end.

    23 Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.

    24 And the waters were over the earth a hundred and fifty days.

  • Gen 6:17
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    17 For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will come to an end.

  • Gen 6:7
    79%

    7 And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them.

  • Gen 7:1-3
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    1 And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.

    2 Of every clean beast you will take seven males and seven females, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, the male and his female;

    3 And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.

  • Gen 6:13-14
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    13 And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth.

    14 Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood with rooms in it, and make it safe from the water inside and out.

  • Gen 8:12-15
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    12 And after seven days more, he sent the dove out again, but she did not come back to him.

    13 And in the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters were dry on the earth: and Noah took the cover off the ark and saw that the face of the earth was dry.

    14 And on the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.

    15 And God said to Noah,

  • Gen 8:6-7
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    6 Then, after forty days, through the open window of the ark which he had made,

    7 Noah sent out a raven, which went this way and that till the waters were gone from the earth.

  • Gen 8:1-3
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    1 And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down.

    2 And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped.

    3 And the waters went slowly back from the earth, and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lower.

  • Gen 8:10
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    10 And after waiting another seven days, he sent the dove out again;

  • Gen 9:11
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    11 And I will make my agreement with you; never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters; never again will the waters come over all the earth for its destruction.

  • Gen 9:15-16
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    15 And I will keep in mind the agreement between me and you and every living thing; and never again will there be a great flow of waters causing destruction to all flesh.

    16 And the bow will be in the cloud, and looking on it, I will keep in mind the eternal agreement between God and every living thing on the earth.

  • Gen 8:17
    73%

    17 Take out with you every living thing which is with you, birds and cattle and everything which goes on the earth, so that they may have offspring and be fertile and be increased on the earth.

  • 2 Pet 2:5
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    5 And did not have mercy on the world which then was, but only kept safe Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he let loose the waters over the world of the evil-doers;