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Genesis 7:12

10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

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

13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.

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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.

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  • Genesis 7:4

    For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

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  • Matthew 4:2

    And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

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  • Genesis 7:17

    And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

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  • Exodus 24:18

    And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

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  • Deuteronomy 9:18

    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 ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

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  • Deuteronomy 9:9

    When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:

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  • Deuteronomy 10:10

    And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.

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  • 1 Kings 19:8

    And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

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