Genesis 7:10-12

7:10 And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth. ¹ 

7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month – on that day all the fountains of the great deep ²  burst open and the floodgates of the heavens ³  were opened. 7:12 And the rain fell ⁴  on the earth forty days and forty nights.

[7:10]  ¹ tn Heb “came upon.”

[7:11]  ² tn The Hebrew term תְּהוֹם (tÿhom, “deep”) refers to the watery deep, the salty ocean – especially the primeval ocean that surrounds and underlies the earth (see Gen 1:2).

[7:11]  ³ sn On the prescientific view of the sky reflected here, see L. I. J. Stadelmann, The Hebrew Conception of the World (AnBib), 46.

[7:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “was.”