Genesis 7:11
“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.”
KJV
Read in Genesis 7Meaning
The flood begins on a precisely dated day with waters described as bursting from the deep and opening from the heavens.
Read carefully
Fountains of the deep and windows of heaven are ancient narrative images; the verse should not be forced into a modern geophysical mechanism.
Reflection
The ordered date and overwhelming water imagery together communicate that the announced judgment has decisively begun.