“And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.”
Genesis 7:12
BSBGo deeper on this verse (3)
- Noah's Flood: Who Shut the Door of the Ark? (Genesis 7)
- The Flood as Un-Creation: How Genesis 7 Rewinds Genesis 1
The flood story as a mirror
These forty days are part of a mirror in the flood account: seven days of waiting before the rain (Genesis 7:4), forty days of rain, then the waters at their height for a hundred and fifty days (Genesis 7:24). On the way out, the same numbers unwind in reverse.
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