Genesis 7:4
“For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.”
King James Version
The precise prediction of the Flood's beginning, fulfilled exactly seven days later.
Fulfillment References
Genesis 7:10-12
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