Genesis 7:11 (WEB)
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.
Fathers and councils · 2
Jerome
“If so, why do we read in the account of the deluge that the windows of heaven were opened, and that the waters of the deluge prevailed? in consequence of which the fountains of the deep were opened, and the whole earth was covered with the waters.” — editor's note: Gen. vii. 11.
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Augustine of Hippo
“But why in the same place is it also written, “The waters of the flood were upon the earth in the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the twenty-seventh day of the month,” if that very brief year (of which it took ten to make one of ours) consisted of thirty-six days?” — editor's note: Gen. vii. 10, 11, (in our version the seventeenth day).
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Cross-references · 3
Cited together in The City of God XV.14.
Cited together in The City of God XV.14.
Cited together in The City of God XV.14.