Genesis 7:10

10 Seven days later the flood 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 Clean and unclean animals, birds, and creatures that crawl on the ground

9 came to Noah to go into the ship in pairs (a male and female of each) as God had commanded Noah.

10 Seven days later the flood came on the earth.

11 On the seventeenth day of the second month of the six hundredth year of Noah's life, all the deep springs burst open. The sky opened,

12 and rain came pouring down on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights.