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Genesis 7:12

10 And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

13 On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—

14 they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.

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BSB
And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
KJV
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
WEB
It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.
ASV
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
DARBY
And the pour of rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
BLB
And rain was upon the earth [for] forty days and forty nights.
ÅB
og regnet strømmet ned på jorden i førti dager og førti netter.
OTB
Og regnet strømmet ned over jorden i førti dager og førti netter.
B1930
og regnet strømmet ned på jorden i firti dager og firti netter.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Genesis 7:4

    For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”

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  • Matthew 4:2

    After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.

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  • Genesis 7:17

    For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.

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  • Exodus 24:18

    Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

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  • Deuteronomy 9:18

    Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.

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  • Deuteronomy 9:9

    When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.

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  • Deuteronomy 10:10

    I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.

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  • 1 Kings 19:8

    So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

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