Genesis 7:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Cross References

Genesis 7:17

The flood continued forty days on the earth, and the waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

Genesis 7:4

For in seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”

Genesis 8:2

the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,

1 Kings 19:8

He got up and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.

Exodus 24:18

Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. Moses was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.

Matthew 4:2

He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he was famished.

Deuteronomy 10:10

“I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. And once again the Lord listened to me. The Lord was unwilling to destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9:18

Then I lay prostrate before the Lord as before, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water because of all the sin you had committed, provoking the Lord by doing what was evil in his sight.

Deuteronomy 9:9

When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.

2 Peter 3:6

through which the world of that time was deluged with water and perished.