Genesis 7:10

10 And it happened [that] after seven days the waters of the flood came over 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 Of clean animals, and of animals which [are] not clean, and of the birds, and everything that creeps upon the ground,

9 {two of each} went to Noah, into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

10 And it happened [that] after seven days the waters of the flood came over the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month--on that day all the springs of the great deep were split open, and the windows of heaven were opened.

12 And the rain came upon the earth forty days and forty nights.