Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Genesis 7:12
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And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
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And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
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It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.
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And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
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Genesis 7
10 And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
12 And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
13 On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—
14 they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.
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