Genesis 7:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 104:6 : 6 Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains;
  • Jer 3:23 : 23 Truly, the hills, and the noise of an army on the mountains, are a false hope: truly, in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.

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  • Gen 7:16-19
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    16Male and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and the ark was shut by the Lord.

    17And 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.

    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.

  • Gen 7:21-24
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    21And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man.

    22Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end.

    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 7:10-12
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    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.

  • 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.

  • Ps 104:6
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    6Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains;

  • 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 6:17
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    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.

  • Gen 6:13-15
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    13And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth.

    14Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood with rooms in it, and make it safe from the water inside and out.

    15And this is the way you are to make it: it is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

  • Gen 8:13-15
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    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.

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    15And God said to Noah,

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    6And that the world which then was came to an end through the overflowing of the waters.

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    15And I will keep in mind the agreement between me and you and every living thing; and never again will there be a great flow of waters causing destruction to all flesh.

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    7And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.

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    14And on all the high mountains, and on all the hills which are lifted up;