Genesis 7:4 - Revised Standard Version

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.”

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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."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.

Genesis 7:4 Cross References

Genesis 2:5

when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground;

Genesis 6:13

And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh; for the earth is filled with violence through them; behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Genesis 6:17

For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall die.

Genesis 6:3

Then the Lord said, “My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for he is flesh, but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.”

Genesis 6:7

So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground, man and beast and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.”

Genesis 7:10

And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

Genesis 7:12

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

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 7:3

and seven pairs of the birds of the air also, male and female, to keep their kind alive upon the face of all the earth.

Genesis 8:10

He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;

Genesis 8:12

Then he waited another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she did not return to him any more.

Genesis 8:2

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

Job 22:16

They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.

Job 28:25

When he gave to the wind its weight, and meted out the waters by measure;

Psalm 69:28

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous.

Jeremiah 28:16

Therefore thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, I will remove you from the face of the earth. This very year you shall die, because you have uttered rebellion against the Lord.’ ”

Amos 4:7

“And I also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest; I would send rain upon one city, and send no rain upon another city; one field would be rained upon, and the field on which it did not rain withered;

Revelation 3:5

He who conquers shall be clad thus in white garments, and I will not blot his name out of the book of life; I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.