Parallel Verses
King James Version
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
New American Standard Bible
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.
Amplified
It rained on the earth for 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
'erets
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, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
Cross References
Genesis 7:4
For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Genesis 7:17
And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
Exodus 24:18
And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
Deuteronomy 9:9
When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
Deuteronomy 9:18
And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
Deuteronomy 10:10
And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.
1 Kings 19:8
And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
Matthew 4:2
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.