Genesis 7:10

10 And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.

Genesis 7:10 in Other Translations

10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

10 And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

10 After seven days, the waters of the flood came and covered the earth.

10 In seven days the floodwaters came.

10 Seven days later the waters of the deluge came on the earth.

Genesis 7:10 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 7:10

And it came to pass after seven days
Were ended, or on the seventh day, after God had given the orders to Noah, to prepare for his going into the ark, with his family, and all the creatures: that the waters of the flood were upon the earth:
that is, they began to be upon the earth; for it continued to rain from hence forty days and forty nights; and still the waters continued to increase, and it was an hundred and fifty days before they began to ebb.

Genesis 7:10 In-Context

8 Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground,

9 male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.

10 And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Cross References

• 1. S ver 4