Did the flood rains last forty days or one hundred fifty days?
PROBLEM: Genesis 7:24 (and Genesis 8:3) speak of the flood waters lasting for 150 days. But, other verses say it was only 40 days (Genesis 7:4; Genesis 7:12; Genesis 7:17). Which is correct?
SOLUTION: These numbers refer to different things. Forty days refers to how long “the rain fell” (7:12, NIV), and 150 days speaks of how long the flood “waters prevailed” (cf. 7:24).
Verse Genesis 7:24. _AND THE WATERS PREVAILED UPON THE EARTH A HUNDRED AND_ _FIFTY DAYS._] The breaking up of the fountains of the great deep, and the raining forty days and nights, had raised the wa...
The prevalence of the waters. The forty days are now completed. And at the end of this period the ark had been afloat for a long time. It was drifted on the waters in the direction in which they were...
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וַ יִּגְבְּר֥וּ הַ מַּ֖יִם עַל ־הָ אָ֑רֶץ
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The Destruction Caused by the Flood...
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Genesis 7:24 waters H4325 prevailed H1396 (H8799) earth H776 hundred H3967 fifty H2572 days H3117...
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Genesis 8:3 Genesis 8:4 compare with ver. 11 of this chapter....
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