Genesis 7:12
Genesis chapter 7 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Context
v.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.
v.12This passage
v.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;
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 19:8
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.
- Matthew 4:2
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered.
- Genesis 7:17
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.
- 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 thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the ground.
- Deuteronomy 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.
- Exodus 24:18
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.