and heavy rains fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
For in seven days I will send rain and flood the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I made I will wipe off the face of the earth.”
And after fasting for forty days, Jesus was extremely hungry.
For forty days, the flood engulfed the earth. The swelling floodwaters lifted up the ark until it rose high above the ground.
Then long afterward he destroyed the world with a tremendous flood by those very waters.
He closed the subterranean fountains and the floodgates of heaven and held back the rain.