 | Theology - 1835 - 516 pages
...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... | |
 | Bible - 1836 - 710 pages
...male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. 4 For yet seven clays, and I head. 19 And his father refused, and said, I know it, my nights ; and every living substance that I GENESIS. [BC 2349—8. have made will I 'destroy from off... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Apologetics - 1837 - 90 pages
...now for the deluge of Noah. Was it, as Professor Silliman asserts, Suddenl Genesis, vii. 4 — 12, "I will cause it to rain upon the earth, forty days and forty nights." Is this sudden? The rain came on gradually, and the ark was " borne upwards." This is the expression of a gentle... | |
 | Edward Stopford (bp. of Meath.) - 1837 - 282 pages
...said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark for yet seven days, (a week, sabbat,) and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights."* The same word is used as in all cases in which a week is intended ; therefore the command... | |
 | 1841 - 884 pages
...of the immediate approach of the flood, it was delivered iu these words : " For yet ween days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights ;" and, accordingly, .the event exactly corresponded with the prediction, for " it came to pass... | |
 | Joseph Tyso - Bible - 1838 - 302 pages
...for years. vi. 3. Yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. vii. 4. For yet seven days and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights. xv. 13. They shall afflict them four hundred years. xl. 13. 19. Within three days shall Pharoah... | |
 | 1838 - 1196 pages
...mate and the female ; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the 4 earth. For yet seven days, and t vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thec m nights ; and every living substance that 1 have made will I 2 destroy 5 from off the face of the earth.... | |
 | 1839 - 444 pages
...it continued raining, when the old world was drowned. Gen. vii. 4 — 12 " 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.... | |
 | Philip Henry - 1839 - 342 pages
...Magistrates are therefore ealled the shields of the earth, Psa. xlvii. 9. 4 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.... | |
 | George Bush - Bible - 1839 - 406 pages
...gives us six for one in to keep seed alive 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 that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.... | |
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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. 
