Genesis 7:12

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 7:4 : 4 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.
  • Gen 7:17 : 17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
  • Exod 24:18 : 18 And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
  • Deut 9:9 : 9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which Jehovah made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water.
  • Deut 9:18 : 18 And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.
  • Deut 10:10 : 10 And I stayed in the mount, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and Jehovah hearkened unto me that time also; Jehovah would not destroy thee.
  • 1 Kgs 19:8 : 8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
  • Matt 4:2 : 2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 7:15-20
    6 verses
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    15And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.

    16And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him: and Jehovah shut him in.

    17And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

    18And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

    19And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered.

    20Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

  • Gen 7:4-11
    8 verses
    88%

    4For 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.

    5And Noah did according unto all that Jehovah commanded him.

    6And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

    7And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

    8Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creepeth upon the ground,

    9there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

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

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

  • Gen 7:23-24
    2 verses
    86%

    23And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only was left, and they that were with him in the ark.

    24And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.

  • Gen 8:1-7
    7 verses
    82%

    1And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;

    2the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

    3and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.

    4And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

    5And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

    6And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:

    7and he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

  • Gen 8:12-15
    4 verses
    81%

    12And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she returned not again unto him any more.

    13And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dried.

    14And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry.

    15And God spake unto Noah, saying,

  • 13In 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;

  • 1And Jehovah said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

  • 10And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;

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    26And as it came to pass in the days of Noah, even so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

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

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    37And as [were] the days of Noah, so shall be the coming of the Son of man.

    38For 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 ark,

  • 28And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

  • 5and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

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

  • 17And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is in the earth shall die.