Genesis 7:4
2 You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;
3 and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.
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.”
5 And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
6 Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
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- BSB
- 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.”
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”
- ASV
- For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the ground.
- DARBY
- For in yet seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living being which I have made will I destroy from the ground.
- BLB
- For after seven more days I am sending rain upon the earth [for] forty days and forty nights; I will wipe out every living thing that I have made from the face of the ground!”
- ÅB
- For om syv dager vil jeg la det regne på jorden i førti dager og førti netter, og jeg vil utrydde av jorden alt levende som jeg har skapt.
- OTB
- For om syv dager vil jeg sende regn over jorden i førti dager og førti netter, og jeg vil utslette fra jordens overflate alt levende som jeg har skapt.”
- B1930
- For om syv dager vil jeg la det regne på jorden i firti dager og firti netter, og jeg vil utrydde av jorden alt levende som jeg har skapt.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
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Genesis 6:13
Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.
Read in contextGenesis 7:17
For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
Read in contextGenesis 7:12
And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Read in contextGenesis 6:17
And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.
Read in contextGenesis 6:7
So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”
Read in contextPsalms 69:28
May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.
Read in contextJob 28:25
When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,
Read in contextJob 22:16
They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
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