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I learned from hearsay that it was 40 days and 40 nights.

I have heard recently that that is a mis-translation and that it was written that it lasted much longer.

Does anyone know more about this?

2007-03-23 07:29:55 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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The water rose for 40 days and 40 nights. But it was 150 days before they receded.
Genesis 7:24 The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.

2007-03-23 07:42:36 · answer #1 · answered by kairos 3 · 1 0

Actually it rained 40 days & 40 nights, but the flood was upon the earth for 150 days, Now please notice how I say this, The total flood was 150 days, But when the flood was decreasing, then the ark was afloat for 7 months & 17 days, but still the flood was here but not in it's fullness. Gen 8:13 speaks of 601 years, but we have to see what that time frame is, Is it that the flood lasted 601 years, no, that was Noah's life at this time, noah had to be 601 yrs. old. I will prove that in a minute, Verse 14 And in the second month on the 7th & 20th or 27 days were the earth dried. So you are looking at in Gen. 8:5 that the waters prevail for 10 months, then you jump down to verse 14 & see 2 months & 27 days, So I am looking at counting the forty days & nights Until the flood was completely over at One year & 27 days. Now in Verse 13 It says 601 yrs. & the reason I said that was Noah age, You will have to turn to Verse 28. & Noah lived after the flood 350 yrs. 29: all all the days of Noah were 950 yrs. take 950 yrs. & subtract noahs age at the time of the flood you come up with 600, Thereore Noah was 600 yrs old going on to 601 yrs. old.

2007-03-23 15:03:20 · answer #2 · answered by birdsflies 7 · 1 0

Nope. It's all accurate. We're all just too use to common literature designed to tittilate, entice, gratify sensually to our own whims. This is no ordinary book and you have to take it very carefully. There's lots of information there. Approach it with a pen, a notebook, be ready to jot stuff down, and use a concordance like Strong's to get at the original languages. You come out winning so you don't have to take a course. It's all reliable. All told, and it's in there, I think I remember it being about a hundred and fifty days the waters were on the earth. No dry land anywhere for that period.

2007-03-23 14:38:41 · answer #3 · answered by vanamont7 7 · 1 0

3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, 4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible

2007-03-23 14:48:38 · answer #4 · answered by Commander 6 · 1 0

It rained 40 days and nights.
However, Noah was in the ark for one year.
The waters had to subside.

2007-03-23 14:43:45 · answer #5 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 1 0

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