Genesis 7:4

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

Genesis 2:5

there was no field shrub on earth and no grass of the field had sprouted, for the Lord God had sent no rain upon the earth and there was no man to till the ground,

Genesis 6:13

God said to Noah: I see that the end of all mortals has come, for the earth is full of lawlessness because of them. So I am going to destroy them with the earth. Preparation for the Flood.

Genesis 6:17

I, on my part, am about to bring the flood waters on the earth, to destroy all creatures under the sky in which there is the breath of life; everything on earth shall perish.

Genesis 6:3

Then the Lord said: My spirit shall not remain in human beings forever, because they are only flesh. Their days shall comprise one hundred and twenty years.

Genesis 6:7

So the Lord said: I will wipe out from the earth the human beings I have created, and not only the human beings, but also the animals and the crawling things and the birds of the air, for I regret that I made them.

Genesis 7:10

When the seven days were over, the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

Genesis 7:12

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

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 7:3

likewise, of every bird of the air, seven pairs, a male and a female, to keep their progeny alive over all the earth.

Genesis 8:10

He waited yet seven days more and again released the dove from the ark.

Genesis 8:12

He waited yet another seven days and then released the dove; but this time it did not come back.

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.

Job 22:16

They were snatched before their time; their foundations a river swept away.

Job 28:25

When he weighed out the wind, and measured out the waters;

Psalm 69:28

Heap punishment upon their punishment; let them gain from you no vindication.

Jeremiah 28:16

For this, says the Lord, I am sending you from the face of the earth; this very year you shall die, because you have preached rebellion against the Lord.

Amos 4:7

And I withheld the rain from you when the harvest was still three months away; I sent rain upon one city but not upon another; One field was watered by rain, but the one I did not water dried up;

Revelation 3:5

“‘“The victor will thus be dressed in white, and I will never erase his name from the book of life but will acknowledge his name in the presence of my Father and of his angels.