The Great Flood
Genesis 7:12
In 11 translations
- 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.
- LSV
- and the shower is on the earth [for] forty days and forty nights.
- YLT
- and the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights.
- DBY
- And the pour of rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
- DRC
- And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
- GNV
- And the raine was vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes.
- JPS
- And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
- LXXE
- And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Word by word Hebrew · tap a word
Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- וַֽיְהִ֥י הַגֶּ֖שֶׁם עַל־הָאָ֑רֶץ אַרְבָּעִ֣ים י֔וֹם וְאַרְבָּעִ֖ים לָֽיְלָה׃
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ ἐγένετο ὁ ὑετὸς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς τεσσαράκοντα ἡμέρας καὶ τεσσαράκοντα νύκτας.
Who and where
◆ The Great Flood begins◆ The Great Flood
People, places and events the Theographic dataset links to this verse.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Part of
Cross-references most cited first
- Genesis 7:4For 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.”
- Matthew 4:2After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
- Genesis 7:17For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
- Deuteronomy 10:10I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.
- Deuteronomy 9:18Then 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…
- Exodus 24:18Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
- Deuteronomy 9:9When 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.
- 1 Kings 19:8So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).