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Genesis 7:12
And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 7:12 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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Genesis 7:12 in other translations
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.
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In context
9 Two and two went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as the Lord had commanded Noe.
10 And after the seven days were passed, the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened:
12 And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 In the selfsame day Noe, and Sem, and Cham, and Japheth, his sons: his wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark.
14 They and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and every thing that moveth upon the earth, according to its kind, and every fowl according to its kind, all birds, and all that fly,
15 Went in to Noe into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein was the breath of life.
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