Holy Scripture
Genesis 7:10
A church father on this verse
“And when seven days had passed, the waters of the flood inundated the earth. The seventh day signifies the Sabbath, that is, the rest of future life. Therefore, since the flood signifies the water of baptism, aptly after seven days from when the ark was made it came, because we are baptized in the hope of perpetual re…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
10And it came to pass after the seven days that the water of the flood came upon the earth.
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8And of clean flying creatures and of unclean flying creatures, and of clean cattle and of unclean cattle, and of all things that creep upon the earth,
9pairs went in to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
— Genesis 7:10 —
11In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the abyss were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened.
12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.