“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
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- Noah's Flood: Who Shut the Door of the Ark? (Genesis 7)
Connection with the flood's great deep
The deep here is tehom (H8415), the same word Genesis 7:11 uses when "the fountains of the great deep burst forth" in Noah's flood. On the second day God split these waters, some above and some below, to open a space for life (Genesis 1:6–7). In the flood both were opened at once, and the space between them closed.
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Cross-References
World destroyed by water — world that then existed was deluged and destroyed
“through which the world of that time perished in the flood.”
Days of Noah — so will be the coming of the Son of Man
“As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.”
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