Genesis 7:12

New American Bible - revised edition

For forty days and forty nights heavy rain poured down on the earth.

Cross References

Genesis 7:17

The flood continued upon the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark, so that it rose above the earth.

Genesis 7:4

For seven days from now I will bring rain down on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and so I will wipe out from the face of the earth every being that I have made.

Genesis 8:2

The fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the downpour from the sky was held back.

1 Kings 19:8

He got up, ate, and drank; then strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights to the mountain of God, Horeb.

Exodus 24:18

But Moses entered into the midst of the cloud and went up on the mountain. He was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.

Matthew 4:2

He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was hungry.

Deuteronomy 10:10

Meanwhile I stayed on the mountain as I did before, forty days and forty nights, and once again the Lord listened to me. The Lord was unwilling to destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9:18

Then, as before, I lay prostrate before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I ate no food, I drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed in the sight of the Lord, doing wrong and provoking him.

Deuteronomy 9:9

when I had gone up the mountain to receive the stone tablets of the covenant which the Lord made with you. Meanwhile I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no food and drank no water.

2 Peter 3:6

through these the world that then existed was destroyed, deluged with water.