According to Genesis, it rained for forty days and forty nights. The Flood lasted for one year, long enough to kill every species and subspecies of animal on earth. It was also long enough to wipe out almost every species of plants, including trees, but the ancients did not realise this and Noah did not worry about collecting the millions of seeds and spores he would need to revegetate the earth. ;
Noah and his family were in the ark for 370 days (by my calculations). Below is a breakdown, which might also help answer your question if you were only wanting to know how long the earth was covered with water.
My answer was based on adding these numbers together:
40 --the number of days it rained (Gen 7:17)
110 --the number of days "the waters prevailed on the earth" (Gen 7:24)
73 -the number days the waters "decreased" ( Gen 8:4,5)
40 --assuming "end of forty days" followed the previous 73 days (Gen 8:6)
7 --days waiting for the dove to return
7--days waiting for the second time he sent out the dove
7 --days waiting till he sent out the third dove
29 --days needed to finish out "601 year, 1st month, 1st day" (Gen 8:13)
57 --days needed to finish out "2nd month, 27th day, the earth was dried"
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370 Days
Then God told them to leave the ark (Gen 8:15,16)
AnswerLong enough to kill every species and subspecies of animal on earth. It was also long enough to wipe out almost every species of plants, including trees. One year and 10 days.We do not know the names of the two different authors of the biblical stories of Noah, and they are now called the Priestly Source and the Yahwist:
Another Answer:
Scripturally, the Genesis account of Noah's Flood is exact, straight forward and full of symmetry of time and biblical numerology. The succint answers is:
Flood began in Noah's 600th year, month 2, day 17 (Genesis 7:11)
Flood ended in Noah's 601st year, month 2, day 27 (Genesis 8:14).
It rained for 40 days and 40 nights which represents a time of testing.
It took 150 days for the waters to fully rage and cover the Earth.
It took 150 days for the waters to recede.
Waiting 7 days in several verses has the number of perfection or completion
The 10 extra days before stepping onto dry land represents divine order or completeness.
Via Jewish tradition, Scripture itself, and most scholars today, Moses is credited with writing the Book of Genesis - either via God's inspiration or from documentation in the form of scrolls or tablets preserved and compiled by him or some combination of the two.
I think 40 days and 40 nights, not sure. (Or just long enough to clean out the gutters.)
Which great flood?
The one from the bible is a myth.
It rained forty days and nights (Genesis 7:12). In addition, wellsprings gushed water up from the earth (ibid 7:11).
40 day and 40 nights
He destroyed it by the flood during Noahs days, but the fanily and the animals were on the ark to continue life.
No god has promised us that he will not flood the earth , like he did at Noahs time.
The eight of Noahs family escaped the flood the rest of mankind died.
Nobody Knows, but it had to worry them!!
you might be familiar with the bible story of noahs ark the one who grabs two of every anomal sticks them in a boat for forty days and forty nightswhile the whole earth is flooded yardy yardy yardy well they say that its gods promise to never flood the world again.
Deep enough to float your boat.
40 days and 40 nights
ice age,Noahs flood in bible
Noah became a farmer and grew a vineyard.
A:A cubit is too small a measure for the biblical Flood. Taken literally, the Flood would have risen kilometres above normal sea level, to cover the whole earth, including the highest mountains in Tibet. As the flood waters receded, The Ark supposedly landed on Mount Ararat, the highest peak in the Middle East.
The next rain after Noah's flood was when Moses parted the water of the red sea. This was a long while after the rains from Noah's Ark and everything they dealt with.
The first mention of rain in the bible , comes with the great flood at Noahs time.