Gen 7:11-12 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Gen 7:11-12: 7:11-12 on the seventeenth day of the second month: Such information gives the flood account a certain solemnity; it reminds readers that this was a true historical event. • underground waters: See 2:6 . • rain fell: The flood undid the boundaries established on the second and third days of creation (1:6-13 ). Elsewhere, the Bible describes God’s judgment as an undoing of creation (see Jer 4:23-26 ; Amos 7:4 ). • forty days and forty nights: See study note on 7:4.

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‏ Genesis 7:11-12

Summary for Gen 7:11-12: 7:11-12 ^a on the seventeenth day of the second month: Such information gives the flood account a certain solemnity; it reminds readers that this was a true historical event.

• underground waters: See 2:6 ^b.

• rain fell: The flood undid the boundaries established on the second and third days of creation (1:6-13 ^c). Elsewhere, the Bible describes God’s judgment as an undoing of creation (see Jer 4:23-26 ^d; Amos 7:4 ^e).

• forty days and forty nights: See study note on 7:4.