4For 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.
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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 the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)Here is, I. A gracious invitation of Noah and his family into a place of safety, now that the flood of waters was coming, Gen. 7:1. 1. The call itself is very kind, like that of a tender father to his children, to come in doors, when he sees night or a storm coming: Come thou, and all thy house , that small family that thou hast, into the ark . Observe, (1.) Noah did not go into the ark till God b…
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