In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Genesis 7:4 in context
Genesis 7:1–7
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The LORD said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
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You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.
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Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
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In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”
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Noah did everything that the LORD commanded him.
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Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
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Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.
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