Genesis 7:4 - Plain English Version

⁴ You see, I’m going to send a big rain. That rain will come in 7 days time. Then it will keep on raining all the time for 40 days. The flood water will come up and wash away all the things that I have made.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ For in seven days I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living substance and thing that I have made I will destroy, blot out, and wipe away from the face of the earth.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ 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.

Common English Bible

⁴ In seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will wipe off from the fertile land every living thing that I have made.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ For from that point, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. And I will wipe away every substance that I have made, from the surface of the earth."

Genesis 7:4 Cross References

Genesis 2:5

At first, God didn’t send any rain on the earth, and there were no people to make the ground right for the plants. So nothing was growing on the earth at that time.

Genesis 6:13

So God said to Noah, “Look, everyone is doing bad things and hurting each other. I’m going to kill everyone, and I will finish up everything on the earth.”

Genesis 6:17

You see, soon I will bring a lot of flood water, and it will cover the earth, and everything that is on the earth will die. Everything that breathes air will die, wherever they live.

Genesis 6:3

God looked at everything that was happening. He said, “I gave people their breath, but I will not let it stay in them for ever. They are just people. They will live for only 120 years.”

Genesis 6:7

And God said, “These people keep on doing bad things, and that makes me really sad. I’m sorry that I made them. I’m sorry I made everything on the earth. I want to finish up everything. I want to kill all the people I made, and I want to kill all the animals on earth, the big animals, and the little animals, and even the animals that crawl around on the ground, and I want to kill all the birds that fly in the sky.”

Genesis 7:10

Then, 7 days later, the flood water came, just like God said.

Genesis 7:17

The flood water kept on getting higher and higher for all those 40 days, and the big boat started to float on the water.

Genesis 7:3

And the birds too. They have to go on to the big boat. Get 7 males and 7 females from each sort of bird. That’s how you can keep those birds and animals alive, so that there will always be birds and animals on the earth.

Genesis 8:10

Noah waited for 7 more days, and then he let the pigeon go out of the boat again.

Genesis 8:12

Noah waited 7 more days, then he sent the pigeon out again. This time the pigeon didn’t come back to the big boat.

Genesis 8:2

And God stopped the water from coming up from under the ground, and he stopped the rain falling from the sky.