Good News TranslationThe flood continued for forty days, and the water became deep enough for the boat to float.
New Revised Standard Version
The flood continued forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.
New American Bible
The flood continued upon the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark, so that it rose above the earth.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth.
Genesis 7:4,12 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. . . .
