Genesis 7:10
Good News Translation
Seven days later the flood came.

New Revised Standard Version
And after seven days the waters of the flood came on the earth.

Contemporary English Version
Seven days later a flood began to cover the earth.

New American Bible
When the seven days were over, the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And after the seven days were passed, the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And after the seven days were passed, the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.

after seven days.

Genesis 7:4 For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.

waters.

Genesis 7:4,17-20 For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth. . . .

Genesis 6:17 Behold, I will bring the waters of a great flood upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life under heaven. All things that are in the earth shall be consumed.

Job 22:16 Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.

Matthew 24:38,39 For, as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, even till that day in which Noe entered into the ark: . . .

Luke 17:27 They did eat and drink, they married wives and were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all.

Context
The Floodwaters Arrive
10And after the seven days were passed, the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.11In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened:…
Cross References
Genesis 7:4
For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.

Genesis 7:9
Two and two went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as the Lord had commanded Noe.

Genesis 7:9
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