Genesis 7:18
The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
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- Exod 14:28 : 28 The water returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen and all the army of Pharaoh that was coming after the Israelites into the sea– not so much as one of them survived!
- Job 22:16 : 16 men who were carried off before their time, when the flood was poured out on their foundations?
- Ps 69:15 : 15 Don’t let the current overpower me! Don’t let the deep swallow me up! Don’t let the Pit devour me!
- Ps 104:26 : 26 The ships travel there, and over here swims the whale you made to play in it.
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- Gen 7:15-173 verses90%
15 Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah.
16 Those that entered were male and female, just as God commanded him. Then the LORD shut him in.
17 The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.
- Gen 7:19-213 verses90%
19 The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.
20 The waters rose more than twenty feet above the mountains.
21 And all living things that moved on the earth died, including the birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all humankind.
- Gen 7:23-242 verses87%
23 So the LORD destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.
24 The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 days.
- Gen 7:10-134 verses83%
10 And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed 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 floodgates of the heavens were opened.
12 And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons’ three wives.
- Gen 8:1-1010 verses83%
1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.
2 The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.
3 The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.
4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat.
5 The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.
6 At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
7 and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.
8 Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.
9 The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back into the ark.
10 He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.
- Gen 7:4-85 verses78%
4 For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.”
5 And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.
6 Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed the earth.
7 Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because of the floodwaters.
8 Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,
- Gen 8:12-154 verses76%
12 He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.
13 In Noah’s six hundred and first year, in the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
14 And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.
15 Then God spoke to Noah and said,
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6 Through these things the world existing at that time was destroyed when it was deluged with water.
- Gen 8:17-193 verses73%
17 Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!”
18 Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives.
19 Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups.
- Gen 6:17-182 verses73%
17 I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,
18 but I will confirm my covenant with you. You will enter the ark– you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
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1 The LORD said to Noah,“Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.
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7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so.