Genesis 7:10

10 In seven days the floodwaters came.

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 all the crawling creatures

9 came in pairs to Noah and to the ship, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.

10 In seven days the floodwaters came.

11 It was the six-hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month that it happened: all the underground springs erupted and all the windows of Heaven were thrown open.

12 Rain poured for forty days and forty nights.