Genesis 7:10

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 From the clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and every creature that crawls on the ground,

9 two of each, male and female, entered the ark with Noah, just as God had commanded him.

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

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,

12 and the rain fell on the earth 40 days and 40 nights.