Genesis 7:11 meaning and explanation
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.
Genesis 7:11, Berean Standard Bible
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The narrator dates the flood precisely: Noah is six hundred, and it is the seventeenth day of the second month. The imagery is vivid and ancient, picturing water from below and above at once.
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