⁴ For in seven days ^(A)I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, ^(B)and every living thing^[a] that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”

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

¹⁷ The flood ^(A)continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.