Genesis 7:12 - New Revised Standard Version

¹² The rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And it rained upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Common English Bible

¹² It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And rain came upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:12 Cross References

Genesis 7:17

The flood continued forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

Genesis 7:4

For in seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”

Genesis 8:2

the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,

1 Kings 19:8

He got up, and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.

Exodus 24:18

Moses entered the cloud, and went up on the mountain. Moses was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.

Matthew 4:2

He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished.

Deuteronomy 10:10

I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. And once again the Lord listened to me. The Lord was unwilling to destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9:18

Then I lay prostrate before the Lord as before, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin you had committed, provoking the Lord by doing what was evil in his sight.

Deuteronomy 9:9

When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.

2 Peter 3:6

through which the world of that time was deluged with water and perished.