Quotes about Flood
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.
- Genesis 7:11
And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
- Genesis 7:12
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—
- Genesis 7:13
They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.
- Genesis 7:15
For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
- Genesis 7:17
So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
- Genesis 7:18
Finally, the waters completely inundated the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.
- Genesis 7:19
The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.
- Genesis 7:20
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 7:23
And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.
- Genesis 7:24
The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
- Genesis 8:2
The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.
- Genesis 8:3