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Genesis 7:12

and the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:12 · Young's Literal Translation

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Genesis 7:12 in other translations

KJV King James Version

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

BSB Berean Standard Bible

And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

WEB World English Bible

It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.

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9 two by two they have come in unto Noah, unto the ark, a male and a female, as God hath commanded Noah.

10 And it cometh to pass, after the seventh of the days, that waters of the deluge have been on the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened,

12 and the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 In this self-same day went in Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, unto the ark;

14 they, and every living creature after its kind, and every beast after its kind, and every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird--every wing.

15 And they come in unto Noah, unto the ark, two by two of all the flesh in which is a living spirit;

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