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.
Cross-reference
In Genesis 7:10, the seven-day countdown given here is fulfilled as the floodwaters actually begin.
In Genesis 7:12, the predicted rain arrives exactly as promised — forty days and nights begin, fulfilling the warning.
Genesis 7:17 describes the same forty-day period — the floodwaters rising, fulfilling the timeline announced in 7:4.
Genesis 7:21-23 records the fulfillment of God's promise to blot out every living thing — exactly as announced in 7:4.
Genesis 7:23 explicitly says 'He blotted out every living thing' — using the same language as God's promise in 7:4, confirming the fulfillment.
In Genesis 6:3, God set a 120-year limit; here the 7-day countdown begins, showing the fulfillment of that earlier judgment.
Genesis 6:7 contains God's original declaration to blot out creation — the same judgment that 7:4 later reiterates with a specific timeline.
Genesis 6:13 announces God's plan to destroy all flesh — a parallel warning that 7:4 then sharpens with a seven-day countdown and forty days of rain.
Genesis 6:17 is an earlier version of the same flood announcement — God declares destruction of all flesh, which 7:4 then specifies with a seven-day countdown.
Genesis 2:5 describes no rain before the fall — a radically different world from the forty-day deluge announced here.
In Genesis 8:12, Noah waits another 7 days before the dove leaves for good — a repeated 7-day pattern bookending the flood.
In Amos 9:8, God says He will destroy the sinful kingdom from the face of the earth — the same language of wiping out used here.
In Luke 21:35, Jesus says the day of judgment will come on all who dwell on the face of the earth — echoing the flood's global scope here.
In Job 22:16, Eliphaz describes the wicked being 'cut off' before their time — echoing the sudden destruction by flood here.
In Deuteronomy 6:15, God's anger is kindled to destroy — a similar pattern of divine judgment for disobedience as the flood here.
In Jeremiah 28:16, God declares Hananiah will die 'this year' — a specific time-bound judgment similar to the seven-day warning here.