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.
KJV
Factumque est diluvium quadraginta diebus super terram : et multiplicatæ sunt aquæ, et elevaverunt arcam in sublime a terra.
Vulgate
Καὶ ἐγένετο ὁ κατακλυσμὸς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς τεσσεράκοντα ἡμέρας καὶ τεσσεράκοντα νύκτας ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς· καὶ ἐπληθύνθη τὸ ὕδωρ καὶ ἐπῆρεν τὴν κιβωτόν, καὶ ὑψώθη ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς.
LXX
And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
ASV
וַֽ/יְהִ֧י הַ/מַּבּ֛וּל אַרְבָּעִ֥ים י֖וֹם עַל הָ/אָ֑רֶץ וַ/יִּרְבּ֣וּ הַ/מַּ֗יִם וַ/יִּשְׂאוּ֙ אֶת הַ/תֵּבָ֔ה וַ/תָּ֖רָם מֵ/עַ֥ל הָ/אָֽרֶץ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
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Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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Cross-references
- 1Pet 3:20 — Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
- 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 7:12 — And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
- Gen 7:12 — And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
- Job 22:16 — Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
- Ps 32:6 — For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
- Ps 69:2 — I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.