Genesis 7:4

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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.

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  • Gen 7:12 : 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
  • Gen 7:17 : 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.
  • Gen 6:7 : 7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
  • Gen 6:13 : 13 ¶ And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
  • Gen 6:17 : 17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life, from under heaven; [and] every thing that [is] in the earth shall die.
  • Gen 8:12 : 12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
  • Job 22:16 : 16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
  • Job 28:25 : 25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
  • Ps 69:28 : 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
  • Amos 4:7 : 7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when [there were] yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
  • Rev 3:5 : 5 ‹He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.›
  • Gen 7:10 : 10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
  • Job 37:11-12 : 11 Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud: 12 And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.
  • Gen 7:21-23 : 21 ¶ And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: 22 All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of all that [was] in the dry [land], died. 23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained [alive], and they that [were] with him in the ark.
  • Gen 8:10 : 10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
  • Job 36:27-32 : 27 For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: 28 Which the clouds do drop [and] distil upon man abundantly. 29 Also can [any] understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the noise of his tabernacle? 30 Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea. 31 For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance. 32 With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it [not to shine] by [the cloud] that cometh betwixt.
  • Gen 29:27-28 : 27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. 28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
  • Exod 32:32-33 : 32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written. 33 And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
  • Gen 2:5 : 5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the ground.
  • Gen 6:3 : 3 ¶ And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

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  • Gen 7:5-24
    20 verses
    88%

    5 ¶ And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.

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

    7 And 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.

    8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are] not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,

    9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

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

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

    12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

    13 ¶ In 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;

    14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.

    15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life.

    16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.

    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.

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

    19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that [were] under the whole heaven, were covered.

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

    21 ¶ And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

    22 All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of all that [was] in the dry [land], died.

    23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained [alive], and they that [were] with him in the ark.

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

  • Gen 6:17
    81%

    17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life, from under heaven; [and] every thing that [is] in the earth shall die.

  • Gen 6:7
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    7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

  • Gen 7:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

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

    2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that [are] not clean by two, the male and his female.

    3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

  • Gen 6:13-14
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    78%

    13 ¶ And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

    14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

  • Gen 8:12-15
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    76%

    12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

    13 ¶ And it came to pass in the six hundredth 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 dry.

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

    15 ¶ And God spake unto Noah, saying,

  • Gen 8:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

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

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

  • Gen 8:1-3
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    75%

    1 ¶ And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;

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

    3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

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

  • Gen 9:11
    74%

    11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

  • Gen 9:15-16
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    15 And I will remember my covenant, which [is] between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

    16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that [is] upon the earth.

  • Gen 8:17
    73%

    17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that [is] with thee, of all flesh, [both] of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

  • 2 Pet 2:5
    73%

    5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth [person], a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;