Genesis 7:17
Good News Translation
The flood continued for forty days, and the water became deep enough for the boat to float.

New Revised Standard Version
The flood continued forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

New American Bible
The flood continued upon the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark, so that it rose above the earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth.

Genesis 7:4,12 For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth. . . .

Context
The Duration of the Flood
17And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth.18For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled all on the face of the earth: and the ark was carried upon the waters.…
Cross References
Genesis 7:4
For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.

Genesis 7:12
And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:16
And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in on the outside.

Genesis 7:18
For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled all on the face of the earth: and the ark was carried upon the waters.

Genesis 7:16
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