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

⁴ For in seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”

¹² The rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.^(A)