Genesis 7:11

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 8:2 : 2 The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
  • Gen 1:7 : 7 God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.
  • Ezek 26:19 : 19 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep on you, and the great waters shall cover you;
  • Mal 3:10 : 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this," says Yahweh of Armies, "if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.
  • 2 Kgs 7:19 : 19 and that captain answered the man of God, and said, "Now, behold, if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be?" and he said, "Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it."
  • Job 28:4 : 4 He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.
  • Job 38:8-9 : 8 "Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb, 9 when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness, 10 marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors, 11 and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'
  • Ps 33:7 : 7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.
  • Ps 74:15 : 15 You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
  • Ps 78:23-24 : 23 Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven. 24 He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.
  • Prov 8:28-29 : 28 when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong, 29 when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth;
  • Isa 24:19 : 19 The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 Don't you fear me?' says Yahweh 'Won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.'
  • Jer 51:16 : 16 when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning for the rain, and brings 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 ship,
  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.
  • Amos 9:5-6 : 5 For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt. 6 It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.
  • Gen 6:17 : 17 I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
  • 2 Kgs 7:2 : 2 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, "Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?" He said, "Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it."

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

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  • Gen 8:13-15
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    13 It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.

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

    15 God spoke to Noah, saying,

  • Gen 8:1-7
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    1 God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

    2 The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

    3 The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.

    4 The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.

    5 The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

    6 It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

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  • Gen 7:16-20
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    16 Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Yahweh shut him in.

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    18 The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.

    19 The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

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

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    4 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."

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    6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.

    7 Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.

  • Gen 7:23-24
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    23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

    24 The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.

  • Gen 6:17
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    17 I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

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

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

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    6 by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

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    10 He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship.

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