Genesis 7:12 - The Scriptures 1998

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And it rained upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Genesis 7:12 Cross References

Genesis 7:17

And the flood was on the earth forty days, and the waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

Genesis 7:4

“For after seven more days I am sending rain on the earth, forty days and forty nights, and shall wipe from the face of the earth all that stand that I created.”

Genesis 8:2

And the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were stopped, and the rain from the heavens was withheld.

1 Kings 19:8

And he rose up and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Ḥ

Exodus 24:18

And Mosheh went into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mountain. And it came to be that Mosheh was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Matthew 4:2

And after having fasted forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.

Deuteronomy 10:10

“And I stayed in the mountain for forty days and forty nights. And יהוה  heard me at that time also, and יהוה  chose not to destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9:18

“and I fell down before יהוה, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I did not eat bread and I did not drink water, because of all your sins which you committed in doing evil in the eyes of יהוה, to provoke Him.

Deuteronomy 9:9

“When I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which יהוה  made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I did not eat bread nor did I drink water.

2 Peter 3:6

through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.