In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Parallel translations
- WEB In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky’s windows were opened.
- KJV 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.
- NKJV In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
- NASB In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.
- NLT When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky.
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Quick answer
In Noah's six hundredth year the fountains of the deep burst open and the windows of heaven were opened. The flood comes from both below and above.
Overview
The precise date underscores the historical reality of the event, while the language of bursting fountains and opened windows pictures a cosmic upheaval, almost an undoing of creation's ordered separation of waters. The whole created order is unleashed in judgment against sin. This de-creation theme magnifies the gravity of sin and the grace that preserves Noah.
Cross-references & the web
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- Gen 8:2The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
- Prov 8:28–29when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth,
- Mal 3:10Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.
- Amos 9:5–6The Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn—all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt—
- 2 Kgs 7:19And the officer had answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” So Elisha had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”
- Ps 78:23–24Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.
- Jer 51:16When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
- Jer 5:22Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
- Job 38:8–11Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
- Ps 33:7He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses.
- Gen 1:7So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so.
- 2 Kgs 7:2But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it.”
- Ezek 26:19For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When I make you a desolate city like other deserted cities, and when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,
- Isa 24:19The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.
- Gen 6:17And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.
- Ps 74:15You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
- Matt 24:38For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.
- Job 28:4Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.
- 1 Th 5:3While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
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