Genesis 6:17

American Standard Version (1901)

And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is in the earth shall die.

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  • 2 Pet 2:5 : 5 and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
  • Gen 7:4 : 4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the ground.
  • Gen 7:21-23 : 21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both birds, and cattle, and beasts, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: 22 all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died. 23 And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only was left, and they that were with him in the ark.
  • Ps 107:34 : 34 A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
  • Ps 29:10 : 10 Jehovah sat [as King] at the Flood; Yea, Jehovah sitteth as King for ever.
  • 1 Pet 3:20 : 20 that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:
  • Heb 11:7 : 7 By faith Noah, being warned [of God] concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
  • Ps 93:3-4 : 3 The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their waves. 4 Above the voices of many waters, The mighty breakers of the sea, Jehovah on high is mighty.
  • Isa 51:12 : 12 I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou art afraid of man that shall die, and of the son of man that shall be made as grass;
  • Isa 54:9 : 9 For this is [as] the waters of Noah unto me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
  • Ezek 5:8 : 8 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I, even I, am against thee; and I will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.
  • Ezek 6:3 : 3 and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
  • Ezek 34:11 : 11 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.
  • Ezek 34:20 : 20 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
  • Hos 5:14 : 14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and there shall be none to deliver.
  • Amos 9:6 : 6 [ it is] he that buildeth his chambers in the heavens, and hath founded his vault upon the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth; Jehovah is his name.
  • Matt 24:39 : 39 and they knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall be the coming of the Son of man.
  • Luke 17:27 : 27 They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
  • Rom 5:12-14 : 12 Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:-- 13 for until the law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a figure of him that was to come.
  • Rom 5:21 : 21 that, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Rom 6:23 : 23 For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • Rom 8:20-22 : 20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
  • Gen 9:9 : 9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
  • Exod 14:17 : 17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them: and I will get me honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen. [
  • Lev 26:28 : 28 then I will walk contrary unto you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.
  • Deut 32:39 : 39 See now that I, even I, am he, And there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; And there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
  • Job 22:16 : 16 Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
  • Gen 7:15 : 15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.
  • Gen 7:17 : 17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
  • Gen 6:7 : 7 And Jehovah said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground; both man, and beast, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
  • Gen 6:13 : 13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

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  • Gen 6:11-13
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    11And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

    12And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

    13And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

  • Gen 7:17-24
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    17And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

    18And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

    19And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered.

    20Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

    21And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both birds, and cattle, and beasts, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

    22all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

    23And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only was left, and they that were with him in the ark.

    24And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.

  • Gen 7:4
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    4For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the ground.

  • Gen 6:5-7
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    5And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

    6And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

    7And Jehovah said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground; both man, and beast, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

  • Gen 6:18-20
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    18But I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

    19And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

    20Of the birds after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

  • Gen 9:15-17
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    15and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

    16And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

    17And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

  • Gen 9:10-11
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    10and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.

    11And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

  • 2 Pet 3:6
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    6by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

  • Gen 8:17
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    17Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh, both birds, and cattle, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

  • Gen 7:6
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    6And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

  • Gen 7:10-12
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    10And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

    11In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

    12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

  • Gen 8:1-3
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    1And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;

    2the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

    3and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.

  • Gen 7:15
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    15And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.

  • Gen 7:1
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    1And Jehovah said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

  • 2 Pet 2:5
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    5and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

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    8Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creepeth upon the ground,

  • Gen 6:3
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    3And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years. [

  • Gen 6:16
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    16A light shalt thou make to the ark, and to a cubit shalt thou finish it upward; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.