Genesis 7:12 - Revised Standard Version

¹² And rain fell upon 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.

Genesis 7:12 Cross References

Genesis 7:17

The flood continued forty days upon 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 upon the earth 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

And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.

Exodus 24:18

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

Matthew 4:2

And he fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he was hungry.

Deuteronomy 10:10

“I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights, and the Lord hearkened to me that time also; 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 which you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

Deuteronomy 9:9

When I went up the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which 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 that then existed was deluged with water and perished.