Genesis 7:12 “And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.”

Genesis 7:12

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

And the raine was vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes.

Darby Translation

And the pour of rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Young's Literal Translation

and the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Bible in Basic English

And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

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Cross references

“forty”

Genesis 7:4 Genesis 7:17 Matthew 4:2 Exodus 24:18 Deuteronomy 9:9 Deuteronomy 9:18

Genesis 7:4 · 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.”

Genesis 7:17 · BSB

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

Matthew 4:2 · BSB

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

Exodus 24:18 · BSB

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

Deuteronomy 9:9 · BSB

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.

Deuteronomy 9:18 · BSB

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…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11In 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.

13On 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—

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