Genesis 7:10

10 It came about after ¹the seven days, that the water of the flood came upon 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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Genesis 7:10 In-Context

8 Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that creeps on the ground,

9 there went into the ark to Noah by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

10 It came about after the seven days, that the water of the flood came upon the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.

12 The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

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1. Genesis 7:4

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[a]. Lit "were"

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Genesis 7:10 Meaning and Commentary

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