12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
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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.
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.
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-12)Here is, I. The date of this great event; this is carefully recorded, for the greater certainty of the story. 1. It was in the 600 th year of Noah’s life, which, by computation, appears to be 1656 years from the creation. The years of the old world are reckoned, not by the reigns of the giants, but the lives of the patriarchs; saints are of more account with God than princes. The righteous shall b…
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