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Genesis 7:12

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

KJV

et facta est pluvia super terram quadraginta diebus et quadraginta noctibus.

Vulgate

καὶ ἐγένετο ὁ ὑετὸς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς τεσσεράκοντα ἡμέρας καὶ τεσσεράκοντα νύκτας.

LXX

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

ASV

וַֽ/יְהִ֥י הַ/גֶּ֖שֶׁם עַל הָ/אָ֑רֶץ אַרְבָּעִ֣ים י֔וֹם וְ/אַרְבָּעִ֖ים לָֽיְלָה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
אַרְבָּעִ֥ים
'rb'ym
adjective · 135×
גָּֽשֶׁם
gshm
noun · 35×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
לָ֑יְלָה
lylh
noun · 234×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×

Intertextual echoes

Quoted or echoed by 1 later passage.

  • Matt 24:37 · echo
    "But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."
    Genesis: the days of Noah — Jesus on the days before his coming

Miracle

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Gen 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.
  • Gen 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.
  • Gen 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.
  • Gen 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.
  • Matt 4:2 — And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.