And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
And it rained on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
This verse describes the duration of the great flood that God sent to cleanse the earth of wickedness.
📚 Historical Context
In the book of Genesis, this verse is part of the Flood narrative, where God had commanded Noah to build an ark because of humanity's widespread wickedness and corruption on the earth. Noah, described as a righteous man, gathered his family and pairs of animals into the ark as instructed, and this rain marked the beginning of the judgment God sent to cleanse the world. The forty days and nights emphasize a significant period of divine intervention, often symbolizing completeness or testing in biblical stories.
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