...understood of years, the reader may judge : — 1. That respecting the Deluge, " Yet seven " days and I will cause it to rain upon " the earth forty days and forty nights." Gen. vii. 4. 2. Joseph's prediction relating to the Butler and Baker, " the three Branches...

...Of fowls also of Ihe air by sevens, the upon the face of all the earth. 4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and Forty nights : and every living substance ¡hat I have made w ill . I destroy from off the face of the earth....

...children, &c. Go. iv. 25. 13 I :.•/;,.•!, three dayt, &c.] For yet seven days (lalth the Lord), and 1 will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights. Ge. vii. 4. Shall Pharaoh, &c.] And it came to pan the third day, which wot Pharaoh's birthday,...

...judging. In the command given to Noah to enter the ark, the Almighty tells him, (Gen. vii. 4.) that he " will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights ; and when the deluge commenced, (ver. 11, 12,) the plain and literal construction of the text...

...seems to have been the principal agent of destruction, as God forewarned Noah : " yet seven days and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights,{ and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth,"...

...seems to have been the principal agent of destruction, as God forewarned Noah : " yet seven days and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights,^ and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth,''...

...flood of waters'. In this latter text the words of the Almighty are, " For yet seven " days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth " forty days and forty nights ; and every living " substance that I have made will I destroy from " off the face of the earth"":...

...male and the female ; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights ; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from oft' the face of the earth....

...numbers must be intended ; for otherwise we make a period of 32,260 years before the coming of the flood. In Gen. 7: 4, God declares, ' that after seven days...cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights ;' which cannot mean, that after seven years it shall begin to rain, and continue to do so for...

...the narrative in question. The sacred record is the following one : — " For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty " nights; and every living substance that 1 have made will I destroy from off the face of the " earth....