Genesis 7:4

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“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.””

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BSBPD

“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.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“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.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“for after other seven days I am sending rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and have wiped away all the substance that I have made from off the face of the ground.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Genesis 7:4 — 20 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 2:5Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
  2. Genesis 6:3So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”
  3. Genesis 6:7So 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.”
  4. Genesis 6:13Then 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.
  5. Genesis 6:17And 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.
  6. Genesis 7:10And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.
  7. Genesis 7:12And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
  8. Genesis 7:17For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
  9. Genesis 7:21And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.
  10. Genesis 8:10Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
  11. Genesis 8:12And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.
  12. Genesis 29:27Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”
  13. Exodus 32:32Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”
  14. Job 22:16They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
  15. Job 28:25When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,
  16. Job 36:27For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,
  17. Job 37:11He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
  18. Psalms 69:28May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.
  19. Amos 4:7“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.
  20. Revelation 3:5Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels.

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