ContradictionsReading order 442Bible context 1 min read
How long did the flood last?
The passages attach different durations to the flood's rise and the waters' persistence, without clearly making both numbers the total duration of the same phase.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Major
- A major event or claim with wider implications.
Forty days of rising floodwater and one hundred fifty days of prevailing water describe distinguishable phases rather than incompatible total durations.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
The flood raises the ark during forty days
And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
Genesis 7:17
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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The waters prevail for one hundred fifty days
And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
Genesis 7:24
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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