Genesis 7:18

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The waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

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  • Exod 14:28 : 28 The waters flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had chased the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.
  • Job 22:16 : 16 They were snatched away before their time, and their foundation was swept away by a flood.
  • Ps 69:15 : 15 Rescue me from the mud, and do not let me sink. Deliver me from those who hate me, and from the deep waters.
  • Ps 104:26 : 26 There the ships go to and fro, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 7:15-17
    3 verses
    90%

    15 They came to Noah and entered the ark, two by two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.

    16 Those entering, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him, and the Lord shut him in.

    17 The flood continued on the earth for forty days. The waters rose and lifted the ark, and it was raised high above the earth.

  • Gen 7:19-21
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    90%

    19 The waters prevailed greatly on the earth, covering all the high mountains under the entire sky.

    20 The waters rose to a height of fifteen cubits above the mountains, covering them completely.

    21 Every living creature that moved on the earth perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.

  • Gen 7:23-24
    2 verses
    87%

    23 Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out—human beings, animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.

    24 The waters prevailed on the earth for one hundred and fifty days.

  • Gen 7:10-13
    4 verses
    83%

    10 And after seven days, the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

    11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the windows of the heavens were opened.

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

    13 On that very day, Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons, entered the ark.

  • Gen 8:1-10
    10 verses
    83%

    1 And God remembered Noah, along with all the living creatures and the animals that were with him in the ark. And God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters began to subside.

    2 The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the heavens was restrained.

    3 The waters continued to recede from the earth, steadily decreasing, and after one hundred and fifty days, the waters had diminished.

    4 The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

    5 The waters continued to decrease until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

    6 At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made.

    7 He sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.

    8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

    9 But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, so she returned to the ark, for the waters were still over the surface of the whole earth. Noah reached out his hand, took her, and brought her back to himself in the ark.

    10 He waited another seven days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

  • Gen 7:4-8
    5 verses
    78%

    4 For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe out every living thing I have made from the face of the ground.

    5 And Noah did everything as the Lord commanded him.

    6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.

    7 Noah, along with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

    8 From the clean animals, from the animals that are not clean, from the birds, and from everything that crawls on the ground,

  • Gen 8:12-15
    4 verses
    76%

    12 He waited another seven days and sent out the dove once again, but she did not return to him anymore.

    13 In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

    14 By the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was completely dry.

    15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying:

  • 2 Pet 3:6
    74%

    6 Through these, the world of that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.

  • Gen 8:17-19
    3 verses
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    17 Bring out every living thing that is with you—all creatures, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—so they can multiply on the earth, be fruitful, and increase in number.

    18 So Noah went out, along with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives.

    19 Every living thing, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark, family by family.

  • Gen 6:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17 And I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh that has the breath of life in it, under the heavens; everything that is on the earth will perish.

    18 But I will establish My covenant with you, and you shall go into the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

  • Gen 7:1
    72%

    1 Then the Lord said to Noah, 'Enter the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.'

  • Gen 1:7
    72%

    7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so.