⁴ For after ^(A)seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth ^(B)forty days and forty nights, and I will ^[a]destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made.”

^17 (A)Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

¹⁸ So Samuel called to the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day; and ^(A)all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.