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Genesis 7:4

in Genesis 7

For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the ground.

KJV

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.

This verse in Genesis 7

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Ephrem the Syrian

COMMENTARY ON GENESIS 6.10.2 · Written before 373.

God granted one hundred years while the ark was being made to that generation, and still they did not repent. God summoned beasts that they had never seen and still they showed no remorse.

This site's exposition

For seven days from now

on Genesis 7:4-5

Seven days stand between the announcement and the rain; forty days and forty nights appears here first. The span comes back as the measure of a testing, Moses on the mountain at Exodus 24:18 and Jesus in the wilderness at Matthew 4:2. Noah did all the LORD had commanded him.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

While Noah told them of the judgment at a distance, they were tempted to put off their repentance: but now he is ordered to tell them that it is at the door; that they have but one week more to turn them in, to see if that will now at last awaken them to consider the things that belong to their peace.

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

While Noah told them of the judgment at a distance, they were tempted to put off their repentance: but now he is ordered to tell them that it is at the door; that they have but one week more to turn them in, to see if that will now at last awaken them to consider the things that belong to their peace.
For yet seven days,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

For yet seven days - God spoke these words probably on the seventh or Sabbath day, and the days of the ensuing week were employed in entering the ark, in embarking the mighty troop, for whose reception ample provision had been already made. Forty days - This period became afterwards sacred, and was considered a proper space for humiliation.

The words behind it

21 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • כִּי֩for

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • לְיָמִ֨יםto days

    leyamimH3117 →2304 times

  • ע֜וֹדyet

    odH5750 →490 times

  • שִׁבְעָ֗הseven

    shivahH7651 →394 times

  • אָֽנֹכִי֙I

    ʾanokhiH595 →359 times

  • מַמְטִ֣יר[am] about to bring rain

    mamtirH4305 →17 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הָאָ֔רֶץthe earth

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםforty

    ʾarbaimH705 →136 times

  • י֔וֹםday[s]

    yomH3117 →2304 times

  • וְאַרְבָּעִ֖יםand forty

    vearbaimH705 →136 times

  • לָ֑יְלָהnight[s]

    layelahH3915 →233 times

  • וּמָחִ֗יתִיand I will wipe

    umachitiH4229 →36 times

  • אֶֽת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַיְקוּם֙the existence

    haykumH3351 →

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • עָשִׂ֔יתִיI have made

    ʾasitiH6213 →2628 times

  • מֵעַ֖לfrom on

    mealH5921 →5755 times

  • פְּנֵ֥י[the] surface of

    peneiH6440 →2123 times

  • הָֽאֲדָמָֽה׃the ground

    haadamahH127 →225 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Genesis 6:17

    And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.

    it leads to

    • 2 Peter 2:5

      if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;

    • Genesis 7:21–23

      And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.

    • Psalms 107:34

      and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.

    • 1 Peter 3:20

      who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.

  • Through

    Genesis 6:7

    So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that…

    it leads to

    • Zephaniah 1:3

      “I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, and the idols with their wicked worshipers. I will cut off mankind…

    • Psalms 37:20

      But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.

  • Through

    Genesis 6:13

    Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.

    it leads to

    • Hosea 4:1–2

      Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God…

    • 1 Peter 4:7

      The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

The Great Flood — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Great Flood — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Chuck Missler, Learn the Bible in 24 Hours; Ephrem the Syrian, COMMENTARY ON GENESIS 6.10.2; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.