DID YOU KNOW?
The answer
One hundred fifty days (Genesis 7:24). The rain fell forty days and nights (7:12), but the text says the waters swelled on the earth long after the sky closed.
Why it’s interesting
The forty everyone quotes times only the rain. The flood's own calendar runs much longer — and the story dates every stage of it by Noah's age, like a logbook.
Scholarly consensus
You can know the Bible.
Not just the stories, but the history, authorship, and scholarship behind it.