Genesis 7:12

New International Reader's Version

Rain fell on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights.

Cross References

Genesis 7:17

For 40 days the flood kept coming on the earth. As the waters rose higher, they lifted the ark high above the earth.

Genesis 7:4

Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth. It will rain for 40 days and 40 nights. I will destroy from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”

Genesis 8:2

The springs at the bottom of the oceans had been closed. The windows of the sky had also been closed. And the rain had stopped falling from the sky.

1 Kings 19:8

So he got up. He ate and drank. The food gave him new strength. He traveled for 40 days and 40 nights. He kept going until he arrived at Horeb. It was the mountain of God.

Exodus 24:18

Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. He stayed on the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights.

Matthew 4:2

After 40 days and 40 nights of going without eating, Jesus was hungry.

Deuteronomy 10:10

I had stayed on the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights, just as I did the first time. The Lord listened to me that time also. He didn’t want to destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9:18

Then once again I fell down flat in front of the Lord with my face toward the ground. I lay there for 40 days and 40 nights. I didn’t eat any food or drink any water. You had committed a terrible sin. You had done an evil thing in the Lord’s sight. You had made him angry.

Deuteronomy 9:9

I went up the mountain. I went there to receive the tablets of the covenant law. They were made out of stone. It was the covenant the Lord had made with you. I stayed on the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights. I didn’t eat any food or drink any water.

2 Peter 3:6

The waters also flooded the world of that time. And so they destroyed the world.