Genesis 7:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Gen 7:4 : 4 For in seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from the face of the earth.
  • Gen 7:17 : 17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose above the earth.
  • Exod 24:18 : 18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mountain: and Moses was in the mountain forty days and forty nights.
  • Deut 9:9 : 9 When I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, even the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, I neither ate bread nor drank water:
  • Deut 9:18 : 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 you sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
  • Deut 10:10 : 10 And I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD listened to me at that time also, and the LORD was not willing to destroy you.
  • 1 Kgs 19:8 : 8 And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mountain of God.
  • Matt 4:2 : 2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward became hungry.

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  • Gen 7:15-20
    6 verses
    88%

    15And they went into Noah into the ark, two by two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.

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

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

    18And the waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark moved on the surface of the waters.

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

    20The waters covered them fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.

  • Gen 7:4-11
    8 verses
    88%

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

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

    6And Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters were upon the earth.

    7And Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, entered the ark because of the floodwaters.

    8Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of every creeping thing that creeps on the earth,

    9They went in two by two to Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

    10And it occurred after seven days that the floodwaters were upon the earth.

    11In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of heaven were opened.

  • Gen 7:23-24
    2 verses
    86%

    23And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed, both man and cattle, creeping things and birds of the sky; they were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.

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

  • Gen 8:1-7
    7 verses
    82%

    1And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

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

    3And the waters receded continually from the earth, and after one hundred and fifty days the waters were diminished.

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

    5And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were 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, which went back and forth until the waters were dried up from the earth.

  • Gen 8:12-15
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    81%

    12And he waited another seven days, and sent forth the dove, which did not return to him anymore.

    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 the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

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

    15And God spoke to Noah, saying,

  • Gen 7:13
    81%

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

  • Gen 7:1
    76%

    1And the LORD said to Noah, "Go, you and all your household, into the ark; for I have seen you as righteous before Me in this generation."

  • Gen 8:10
    76%

    10And he waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.

  • Luke 17:26-27
    2 verses
    75%

    26And as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man.

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

  • Matt 24:37-38
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    37But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

    38For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark,

  • Gen 9:28
    75%

    28And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

  • 2 Pet 2:5
    74%

    5And did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

  • 2 Pet 3:6
    74%

    6By which the world that then existed, being overflowed with water, perished:

  • Gen 6:17
    73%

    17And behold, I Myself am bringing a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die.