Quotes about Flood

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

through which the world of that time perished in the flood.

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

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.

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

But consider the mountain-building period of the Flood of Noah's day (e.g., Genesis 8:4,5 Psalm 104:8—9,6 etc.) involving immense volcanic activity acting in conjunction for more than half of the year and surely some volcanic activity that was post-Flood too — which would extend the effects. The point is that immense amounts of fine ash and dioxides were put in the upper atmosphere to linger for hundreds and hundreds of years.

After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

Finally, the waters completely inundated the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.

This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.

“Come out of the ark, you and your wife, along with your sons and their wives.

So Noah came out, along with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.