Genesis 7:10

10 It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the eretz.

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

9 went by pairs to Noach into the teivah, male and female, as God commanded Noach.

10 It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the eretz.

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

12 The rain was on the eretz forty days and forty nights.