758. Verse it And there was rain over the earth for forty days and forty nights means the time this temptation lasted, 'rain' being temptation, 'forty days and nights' its duration.
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And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: