4 For in seven days ^sI will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, ^tand every living thing¹ that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”

12 And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

17 The flood ^zcontinued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

6 At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made