Genesis 7:4
Good News Translation
Seven days from now I am going to send rain that will fall for forty days and nights, in order to destroy all the living beings that I have made."

New Revised Standard Version
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.”

Contemporary English Version
Seven days from now I will send rain that will last for 40 days and nights, and I will destroy all other living creatures I have made.

New American Bible
For seven days from now I will bring rain down on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and so I will wipe out from the face of the earth every being that I have made.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.

For.

Genesis 7:10 And after the seven days were passed, the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.

Genesis 2:5 And every plant of the field before it sprung up in the earth, and every herb of the ground before it grew: for the Lord God had not rained upon the earth; and there was not a man to till the earth.

Genesis 6:3 And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

Genesis 8:10,12 And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove out of the ark. . . .

Genesis 29:27,28 Make up the week of days of this match: and I will give thee her also, for the service that thou shalt render me other seven years. . . .

Job 28:25 Who made a weight for the winds, and weighed the waters by measure.

Job 36:27-32 He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like floods: . . .

Job 37:11,12 Corn desireth clouds, and the clouds spread their light: . . .

Amos 4:7 I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon on city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon: and the piece whereupon I rained not, withered.

forty days.

Genesis 7:12,17 And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. . . .

and every.

Genesis 7:21-23 And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth: and all men. . . .

Genesis 6:17 Behold, I will bring the waters of a great flood upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life under heaven. All things that are in the earth shall be consumed.

destroy.

Genesis 7:21,23 And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth: and all men. . . .

Genesis 6:7,13,17 He said: I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them. . . .

Exodus 32:32,33 Or if thou do not, strike me out of the book that thou hast written. . . .

Job 22:16 Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.

Psalm 69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; and with the just let them not be written.

Revelation 3:5 He that shall overcome shall thus be clothed in white garments: and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life. And I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.

Context
Entering the Ark
3But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and the female. Of the fowls also of the air seven and seven, the male and the female: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth. 4For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.5And Noe did all things which the Lord had commanded him.…
Cross References
Genesis 6:7
He said: I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them.

Genesis 6:13
He said to Noe: The end of all flesh is come before me, the earth is filled with iniquity through them, and I will destroy them with the earth.

Genesis 7:3
But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and the female. Of the fowls also of the air seven and seven, the male and the female: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth.

Genesis 7:10
And after the seven days were passed, the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.

Genesis 7:12
And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:17
And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth.

Genesis 7:21
And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth: and all men.

Genesis 8:2
The fountains also of the deep, and the floodgates of heaven, were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

Jeremiah 28:16
Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will send thee away from off the face of the earth: this year shalt thou die: for thou hast spoken against the Lord.

Genesis 7:3
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