Parallel Verses
Amplified
It rained on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Holman Bible
and the rain fell on the earth 40 days and 40 nights.
International Standard Version
and it rained throughout the earth for 40 days and 40 nights.
A Conservative Version
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
American Standard Version
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Bible in Basic English
And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Darby Translation
And the pour of rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
Julia Smith Translation
And the rain shall be upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
King James 2000
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the rain came upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Modern King James verseion
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and there fell a rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
NET Bible
And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
New Heart English Bible
The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
The Emphasized Bible
(And it came to pass that the heavy rain was on the earth, - forty days and forty nights.)
Webster
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
World English Bible
The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
Youngs Literal Translation
and the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights.
Themes
Ark » Noah's » Animals saved in
Clouds » Frequently the instrument of God's judgments
the Deluge » Produced by » Forty days' incessant rain
Rain » Instances of extraordinary » Time of the flood
Rain » Forty days of, at the time of the great flood of noah
Topics
Interlinear
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Yowm
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 7:12
Prayers for Genesis 7:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Flood
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep [subterranean waters] burst open, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 It rained on the earth for forty days and forty nights. 13 On the very same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark,
Cross References
Genesis 7:4
For in seven days I am going to cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy (blot out, wipe away) every living thing that I have made from the surface of the earth.”
Genesis 7:17
The flood [the great downpour of rain] was forty days and nights on the earth; and the waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it floated [high] above the land.
Exodus 24:18
Moses entered the midst of the cloud and went up the mountain; and he was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Deuteronomy 9:9
When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food or drink water.
Deuteronomy 9:18
Then, as before, I fell down before the Lord for [another] forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food or drink water, because of all the sin you had committed by doing
Deuteronomy 10:10
“And I stayed on the mountain, like the first time, forty days and nights, and the Lord listened to me at that time also; the Lord was not willing to destroy you.
1 Kings 19:8
So he got up and ate and drank, and with the strength of that food he traveled forty days and nights to Horeb (Sinai), the mountain of God.
Matthew 4:2
After He had gone without food for forty days and forty nights, He became hungry.