Genesis 7:12
“And the raine was vpon the earth, fortie dayes, and fortie nights.”
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Genesis 7:12 Context
10And it came to passe after seuen dayes, that the waters of the Flood were vpon the earth. 11¶ In the sixe hundredth yeere of Noahs life, in the second moneth, the seuenteenth day of the moneth, the same day, were al the fountaines of the great deepe broken vp, and the windowes of heauen were opened. 12And the raine was vpon the earth, fortie dayes, and fortie nights. 13In the selfe same day entred Noah, and Sem, and Ham, and Iapheth, the sonnes of Noah, and Noahs wife, and the three wiues of his sonnes with them, into the Arke, 14They, and euery beast after his kinde, & all the cattell after their kinde: and euery creeping thing that creepeth vpon the earth after his kinde, and euery foule after his kinde, euery birde of euery sort.
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And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
- King James Version
The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
- New American Standard Version (1995)