Genesis 7:11

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Genesis 7:9–13 · Berean Standard Bible

9 came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

10 And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

12 And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

13 On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—

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Genesis 1:7

So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so.

Genesis 6:17

And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.

Genesis 8:2

The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

Job 28:4

Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.

Job 38:8

Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

Job 38:9

when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

Job 38:10

when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,

Job 38:11

and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?

Psalms 33:7

He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses.

Psalms 74:15

You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.

Proverbs 8:28

when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth,

Proverbs 8:29

when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.

Isaiah 24:19

The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.

Jeremiah 5:22

Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.

Jeremiah 51:16

When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

Ezekiel 26:19

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When I make you a desolate city like other deserted cities, and when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,

Amos 9:5

The Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn— all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt—

Amos 9:6

He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth. The LORD is His name.

Matthew 24:38

For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

2 Kings 7:2

But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it.”

2 Kings 7:19

And the officer had answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” So Elisha had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”

Psalms 78:23

Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.

Psalms 78:24

He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.

Malachi 3:10

Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.