Genesis 7:11

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Noah was six hundred years old when the water under the earth started gushing out everywhere. The sky opened like windows, and rain poured down for forty days and nights. All this began on the seventeenth day of the second month of the year.

Cross References

Genesis 1:7

And that's what happened. God made the dome

Genesis 6:17

I'm going to send a flood that will destroy everything that breathes! Nothing will be left alive.

Genesis 8:14

By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was completely dry.

Genesis 8:2

God stopped up the places where the water had been gushing out from under the earth. He also closed up the sky, and the rain stopped.

2 Kings 7:19

But the officer refused to believe that even the LORD could do that. So Elisha warned him that he would see it happen, but would not eat any of the food.

2 Kings 7:2

The chief officer there with the king replied, “I don't believe it! Even if the LORD sent a rainstorm, it couldn't produce that much grain by tomorrow.” “You will see it happen, but you won't eat any of the food,” Elisha warned him.

Job 12:15

God can hold back the rain or send a flood,

Job 28:4

They dig tunnels in distant, unknown places, where they dangle by ropes.

Job 38:16

Job, have you ever walked on the ocean floor?

Job 38:37

Can you count the clouds or pour out their water

Psalm 33:7

He scooped up the ocean and stored the water.

Psalm 74:15

You opened the ground for streams and springs and dried up mighty rivers.

Proverbs 3:20

By his understanding he let the ocean break loose and clouds release the rain.

Isaiah 24:18

If you are terrified and run, you will fall into a pit; if you crawl out of the pit, you will get caught in a trap. The sky has split apart like a window thrown open. The foundations of the earth have been shaken;

Isaiah 24:19

the earth is shattered, ripped to pieces.

Jeremiah 5:22

that you should worship me with fear and trembling? I'm the one who made the shore to hold back the ocean. Waves may crash on the beach, but they can come no further.

Jeremiah 51:16

The waters in the heavens roar at his command. He makes clouds appear; he sends the wind from his storehouse and makes lightning flash in the rain.

Ezekiel 26:19

I, the LORD God, will turn you into a ghost town. The ocean depths will rise over you

Malachi 3:10

I am the LORD All-Powerful, and I challenge you to put me to the test. Bring the entire ten per cent into the storehouse, so there will be food in my house. Then I will open the windows of heaven and flood you with blessing after blessing.

Matthew 24:38

People were eating, drinking, and getting married right up to the day that the flood came and Noah went into the big boat.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

People will think they are safe and secure. But destruction will suddenly strike them like the pains of a woman about to give birth. And they won't escape.

2 Peter 3:6

Later it was destroyed by the waters of a mighty flood.