Genesis 7:4

World English Bible (2000)

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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  • Gen 7:12 : 12 The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
  • Gen 7:17 : 17 The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.
  • Gen 6:7 : 7 Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."
  • Gen 6:13 : 13 God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
  • 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.
  • Gen 8:12 : 12 He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.
  • Job 22:16 : 16 who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
  • Job 28:25 : 25 He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.
  • Ps 69:28 : 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
  • Amos 4:7 : 7 "I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, and the piece where it didn't rain withered.
  • Rev 3:5 : 5 He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
  • Gen 7:10 : 10 It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the earth.
  • Job 37:11-12 : 11 Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning. 12 It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world,
  • Gen 7:21-23 : 21 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man. 22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died. 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.
  • Gen 8:10 : 10 He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship.
  • Job 36:27-32 : 27 For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor, 28 Which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly. 29 Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion? 30 Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea. 31 For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance. 32 He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.
  • Gen 29:27-28 : 27 Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years." 28 Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.
  • Exod 32:32-33 : 32 Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin--and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written." 33 Yahweh said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
  • Gen 2:5 : 5 No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
  • Gen 6:3 : 3 Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."

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  • Gen 7:5-24
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    5 Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.

    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.

    8 Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground

    9 went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

    10 It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the earth.

    11 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.

    12 The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

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

    14 they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

    15 They went to Noah into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.

    16 Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Yahweh shut him in.

    17 The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.

    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.

    21 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

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

    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 6:7
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    7 Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."

  • Gen 7:1-3
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    1 Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

    2 You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.

    3 Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.

  • Gen 6:13-14
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    13 God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

    14 Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.

  • Gen 8:12-15
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    12 He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.

    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 8:6-7
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    6 It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

    7 and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

  • Gen 8:1-3
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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.

  • Gen 8:10
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    10 He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship.

  • Gen 9:11
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    11 I will establish my covenant with you: all flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, neither will there ever again 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 will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

    16 The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."

  • Gen 8:17
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    17 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."

  • 2 Pet 2:5
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    5 and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;