Creation & Patriarchs
The flood
The flood has no date in the Modern reckoning; the Traditional reckoning puts it in 2348 BC. It is told in Genesis 7:11. Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth are part of it.
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
When did it happen?
- Modern reckoning
- undated
- Traditional reckoning
- 2348 BC
- How it's dated
- the genealogies
Dates before about 900 BC depend on how the Bible's own numbers are added up. Why the two reckonings differ.
Sources: Theographic event 38.
Where is it in the Bible?
Who was there, and where?
Which verses connect to Genesis 7:11?
The strongest cross-references of the key verse, ranked by reader votes (OpenBible.info).
- Genesis 8:212 votes
The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
- Proverbs 8:28–296 votes
when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth, when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.
- Malachi 3:106 votes
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.
- Amos 9:5–65 votes
The Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn—all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt— He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth. The LORD is His name.
- 2 Kings 7:194 votes
And the officer had answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” So Elisha had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”
- Psalm 78:23–244 votes
Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens. He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.
Events, people and places: Theographic Bible Metadata (Robert Rouse), CC BY-SA 4.0, reshaped; dates also from the sources named on each anchor.