Genesis 7:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.

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  • Gen 7:4 : 4 For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth.
  • Gen 7:12 : 12 And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

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  • Gen 7:18-20
    3 verses
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    18And the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters.

    19And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered.

    20The waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all the mountains were covered.

  • Gen 7:9-13
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    9In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said.

    10And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.

    11In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;

    12And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

    13On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark;

  • Gen 7:23-24
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    23Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.

    24And the waters were over the earth a hundred and fifty days.

  • Gen 7:4-7
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    4For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth.

    5And Noah did everything which the Lord said he was to do.

    6And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.

    7And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.

  • Gen 8:1-7
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    1And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down.

    2And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut, and the rain from heaven was stopped.

    3And the waters went slowly back from the earth, and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lower.

    4And on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

    5And still the waters went on falling, till on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.

    6Then, after forty days, through the open window of the ark which he had made,

    7Noah sent out a raven, which went this way and that till the waters were gone from the earth.

  • Gen 8:12-15
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    12And after seven days more, he sent the dove out again, but she did not come back to him.

    13And in the six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters were dry on the earth: and Noah took the cover off the ark and saw that the face of the earth was dry.

    14And on the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.

    15And God said to Noah,

  • Gen 8:9-10
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    9But the dove saw no resting-place for her foot, and came back to the ark, for the waters were still over all the earth; and he put out his hand, and took her into the ark.

    10And after waiting another seven days, he sent the dove out again;

  • Gen 7:15-16
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    15They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.

    16Male and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and the ark was shut by the Lord.

  • 1And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.

  • 17For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will come to an end.

  • 17Take out with you every living thing which is with you, birds and cattle and everything which goes on the earth, so that they may have offspring and be fertile and be increased on the earth.