Genesis 7:12
And the rain fell on 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 I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.”
- Gen 7:17 : 17 The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.
- Exod 24:18 : 18 Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
- Deut 9:9 : 9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.
- Deut 9:18 : 18 Then I again fell down before the LORD for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the LORD as to enrage him.
- Deut 10:10 : 10 As for me, I stayed at the mountain as I did the first time, forty days and nights. The LORD listened to me that time as well and decided not to destroy you.
- 1 Kgs 19:8 : 8 So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
- Matt 4:2 : 2 After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.
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- Gen 7:15-206 verses88%
15Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah.
16Those that entered were male and female, just as God commanded him. Then the LORD shut him in.
17The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.
18The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
19The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.
20The waters rose more than twenty feet above the mountains.
- Gen 7:4-118 verses88%
4For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.”
5And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.
6Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed the earth.
7Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because of the floodwaters.
8Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,
9male and female, came into the ark to Noah, just as God had commanded him.
10And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth.
11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month– on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
- Gen 7:23-242 verses86%
23So the LORD destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.
24The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 days.
- Gen 8:1-77 verses82%
1But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.
2The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.
3The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.
4On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat.
5The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.
6At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
7and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.
- Gen 8:12-154 verses81%
12He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.
13In Noah’s six hundred and first year, in the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
14And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.
15Then God spoke to Noah and said,
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13On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons’ three wives.
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1The LORD said to Noah,“Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.
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10He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.
- Luke 17:26-272 verses75%
26Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man.
27People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage– right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
- Matt 24:37-382 verses75%
37For just like the days of Noah were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.
38For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.
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28After the flood Noah lived 350 years.
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5and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when God brought a flood on an ungodly world,
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6Through these things the world existing at that time was destroyed when it was deluged with water.
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17I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,