 | François Genard - 1753 - 352 pages
...is the Scripture exprefs :' " The Fountains of the great Deep were broken up, the Windows of Heaven were opened, and the Rain was upon the Earth forty Days and forty Nights ; all the high Hills were covered, and fifteen Cubits upward did the Waters prevail."* The higheftV... | |
 | John Milton - 1754 - 482 pages
...the Month, the fame Day were all the Fountains of the great Deep broken up, and the Windows of Heaven were opened. And the Rain was upon the Earth forty Days * and forty Nights. And in the " fecond Month, on the feven " and twentieth Day of the " Month, was the Earth dried." The clean... | |
 | Universal history - 1779 - 492 pages
...on the felf-fame day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened ; and' the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. The waters of the flood continued gradually to increafe for five months, till they reached... | |
 | Robert Miln - 1786 - 434 pages
...:Monthit the fame Day -were all the Fountains of the great Deep broken up ; and the Windows of $eaven -were opened. And the Rain 'was upon the Earth forty Days and forty Nights. THE hiftbry of Mofes, is nothing but a hiftory of that kingdom of providence, which Almighty... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 480 pages
...All the fountains of the great deep " were broken up ; and the windows and flood " gates of heaven were opened : and the rain "was upon the earth, forty days and forty " nights." These were the two grand sources of the deluge. Yet, one of these sources has been supposed... | |
 | 1794 - 544 pages
...f;i)s, " All the fountains of the great deep were broken up ; and the windows and flood-gates of heaven were opened : and the rain was upon the earth, forty days and forty nights." Thefe were the two grand fources of the deluge. Yet, one of thcfe fources has been fuppolcd... | |
 | 1806 - 422 pages
...the ark. " The same day " were the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the " windows of heaven were opened, and the rain was upon the " earth forty days and forty nights." After forty days the ark floated. The waters continued to rise for one hundred and fifty days,... | |
 | Jacob Bryant - 1807 - 486 pages
...the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain •was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. lit the self same day entered Noah, fyc. — And they went in unto Noah into the ark two and... | |
 | Richard Watson (bp. of Llandaff.) - 1808 - 156 pages
...three nights, to denote what we understand by three days? — It is said in Genesis, chap. vii. 12. " The rain was upon the earth forty days and forty "nights," and this is equivalent to the expression, (ver. 17.) "And the flood was forty days upon the earth." Instead... | |
 | William Bengo Collyer - 1813 - 448 pages
...the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem. and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah^s... | |
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In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty... 
