Text -- Genesis 7:4 (NET)

7:4 For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Gen 7:4

¹ tn Heb “for seven days yet,” meaning “after [or “in”] seven days.”

² tn The Hiphil participle מַמְטִיר (mamtir, “cause to rain”) here expresses the certainty of the act in the imminent future.