Genesis 7:10

10 And the seventh daye the waters of the floud came vppon the erth.

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 And of clene beastes and of beastes that ware vnclene and of byrdes and of all that crepeth vppo the erth

9 came in by cooples of every kynde vnto Noe in to the arke: a male and a female: even as God commaunded Noe.

10 And the seventh daye the waters of the floud came vppon the erth.

11 In the .vi. hundred yere of Noes lyfe in the secode moneth in the .xvij daye of the moneth yt same daye were all the founteynes of the grete depe broken vp and the wyndowes of heave were opened

12 ad there fell a rayne vpon the erth .xl. dayes and .xl. nyghtes.