In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that very day all the underground springs burst forth, and the floodgates of heaven were opened.
This verse describes the exact moment when God unleashed the great flood from both above and below the earth.
📚 Historical Context
In the biblical narrative of Genesis, this verse marks the precise start of the Great Flood, which God sent as a judgment on humanity's widespread corruption and violence that had filled the earth. Noah, described as a righteous man in a wicked generation, had been commanded by God to build an ark to save his family and representatives of all animals from the impending catastrophe. The "fountains of the great deep" and "windows of heaven" refer to ancient understandings of the earth's subterranean waters and the sky's reservoirs, symbolizing a divinely orchestrated deluge.
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