Genesis 7:4

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Genesis 7:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;

3 and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.

4 For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”

5 And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.

6 Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.

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Genesis 7:10

And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.

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So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”

Genesis 8:10

Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

Genesis 8:12

And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.

Genesis 29:27

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Genesis 29:28

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Job 28:25

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Job 36:27

For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,

Job 36:28

which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.

Job 36:29

Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion?

Job 36:30

See how He scatters His lightning around Him and covers the depths of the sea.

Job 36:31

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Job 36:32

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Job 37:11

He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.

Job 37:12

They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.

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“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.

Genesis 7:12

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

Genesis 7:17

For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.

Genesis 7:21

And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.

Genesis 7:22

Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

Genesis 7:23

And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.

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 6:7

So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”

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Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”

Exodus 32:33

The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book.

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Psalms 69:28

May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.

Revelation 3:5

Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels.