Genesis 7:4 - The Scriptures 2009

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.”

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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

Now no shrub of the field was yet on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for יהוה Elohim had not sent rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground,

Genesis 6:13

and Elohim said to Noaḥ, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. And see, I am going to destroy them from the earth.

Genesis 6:17

“And see, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under the heavens – all that is on the earth is to die.

Genesis 6:3

And יהוה said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever in his going astray. He is flesh, and his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”

Genesis 6:7

And יהוה said, “I am going to wipe off man whom I have created from the face of the ground, both man and beast, creeping creature and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.”

Genesis 7:10

And it came to be after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth.

Genesis 7:12

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

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 7:3

and of birds of the heavens seven pairs, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

Genesis 8:10

And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent the dove out from the ark.

Genesis 8:12

And he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, which did not return to him again.

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.

Job 22:16

who were cut down before their time, whose foundations were swept away by a flood?

Job 28:25

making a weight for the wind, and measuring out the waters by measure.

Psalm 69:28

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, And not be written with the righteous.

Jeremiah 28:16

“Therefore thus said יהוה, ‘See, I am sending you away from the face of the earth. This year you shall die, for you have spoken apostasy against יהוה.’ ”

Amos 4:7

“And I also withheld rain from you, three new moons before the harvest. Then I would send rain on one city, and on another city I would not send rain. One part was rained upon, and where it did not rain the part would dry up.

Revelation 3:5

“He who overcomes shall be dressed in white robes, and I shall by no means blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I shall confess his name before My Father and before His messengers.