Genesis 7:11

Overview - Genesis 7
Noah, with his family, and the living creatures, enter the ark, and the flood begins.
17 The increase and continuance of the flood for forty days.
21 All flesh is destroyed by it.
24 Its duration.
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Genesis 7:11  (King James Version)
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
 


second month
The first month was Tisri, which answers to the latter end of September and first half of October; the second was Marchesvan, which answers to part of October and part of November.

all
1:7 6:17 8:2 Job 28:4 ; 38:8-11 Psalms 33:7 ; 74:15 Proverbs 8:28 Proverbs 8:29
Isaiah 24:19 ; Jeremiah 5:22 ; 51:16 Ezekiel 26:19 ; Amos 9:5 Amos 9:6 ; Matthew 24:38 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:3

windows
or, flood-gates.
1:7 8:2 2 Kings 7:2 2 Kings 7:19 ; Psalms 78:23 Psalms 78:24 ; Malachi 3:10