Tree of Life Version
Genesis 7:10
10After the seven days, the floodwaters were upon the land.
Genesis 7:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
- New International Version (NIV)And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth.
Context of Genesis 7:10
8Of the clean animals and unclean animals, the flying creatures and everything that crawls on the ground, 9two by two they came to Noah, into the ark, male and female, just as God commanded Noah. After the seven days, the floodwaters were upon the land. 11In the six-hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day, all the water sources of the great deep burst open, and the windows of the sky were opened. 12Then there was rain upon the land 40 days and 40 nights.
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וַֽיְהִ֖י לְשִׁבְעַ֣ת הַיָּמִ֑ים וּמֵ֣י הַמַּבּ֔וּל הָי֖וּ עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Genesis 7:10
- Genesis 7:4For in seven more days, I am going to make it rain upon the land forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe out all existence that I made from the face of the ground.
- Genesis 6:17Now I am about to bring the flood—water upon the land—to destroy all flesh in which is the spirit of life from under the sky. Everything that is on the land will perish.
- Job 22:16They were snatched away before their time, their foundations washed away by a river.
- Matthew 24:38For in those days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.
- Luke 17:27They were eating, drinking, marrying, and being given in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
Commentaries on Genesis 7:10
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10-16Verses 10-16 - XXV. The Flood The date is here given, at which the flood commenced and the entrance into the ark was completed. “In seven days.” On the seventh day from the command. “In the second month.” The primeval year commenced about the autumnal equinox; we may say, on the nearest new moon. The rains began about a month or six weeks after the equinox, and, consequently, not far from the seventeenth of the second month. “All the fountains of the…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-241. And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark--The ark was finished; and Noah now, in the spirit of implicit faith, which had influenced his whole conduct, waited for directions from God.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Genesis 7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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