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Genesis 7:4

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7:4 For in seven days 1  I will cause it to rain 2  on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.”

Genesis 7:12

Context
7:12 And the rain fell 3  on the earth forty days and forty nights.

1 tn Heb “for seven days yet,” meaning “after [or “in”] seven days.”

2 tn The Hiphil participle מַמְטִיר (mamtir, “cause to rain”) here expresses the certainty of the act in the imminent future.

3 tn Heb “was.”



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