Genesis 7:4
כִּי לְ יָמִים עֹוד שִׁבְעָה אָנֹכִי מַמְטִיר עַל הָ אָרֶץ אַרְבָּעִים יֹום וְ אַרְבָּעִים לָיְלָה וּ מָחִיתִי אֶת כָּל הַ יְקוּם אֲשֶׁר עָשִׂיתִי מֵ עַל פְּנֵי הָ אֲדָמָה
For to days again seven, myself is he-who-causes-rain upon the Earth forty hot-one and forty night-hers,268 and I have wiped-out the את-whole of the Standing-one269 who I have made from upon the faces of the Red-one.`
| 268 | Hot-one and night are in the singular, not plural. Counting with the plural happens mainly with the single digits up to ten. In Numbers 11:19 “twenty hot-one” is in the singular while the rest are in the plural, “Ye do not eat one hot-one, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty hot-one, but for a month of days…” Numbers 11:19-20. |