Genesis 7:22

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 2:7 : 7 The LORD God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
  • Gen 6:17 : 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,

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  • Gen 7:14-21
    8 verses
    89%

    14 They entered, along with every living creature after its kind, every animal after its kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, everything with wings.

    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.

    18 The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

    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 7:23-24
    2 verses
    86%

    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.

  • 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,

  • Gen 7:1-8
    8 verses
    74%

    1 The LORD said to Noah,“Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.

    2 You must take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, the male and its mate, two of every kind of unclean animal, the male and its mate,

    3 and also seven pairs of every kind of bird in the sky, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of the entire earth.

    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 6:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12 God saw the earth, and indeed it was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were sinful.

    13 So God said to Noah,“I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth.

  • 29 The entire lifetime of Noah was 950 years, and then he died.

  • 15 all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.

  • 10 and with every living creature that is with you, including the birds, the domestic animals, and every living creature of the earth with you, all those that came out of the ark with you– every living creature of the earth.

  • Gen 7:10-12
    3 verses
    72%

    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.

  • 19 Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups.

  • 6 Through these things the world existing at that time was destroyed when it was deluged with water.

  • 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!”

  • Gen 8:1-2
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    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.

  • 7 So the LORD said,“I will wipe humankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth– everything from humankind to animals, including creatures that move on the ground and birds of the air, for I regret that I have made them.”

  • Gen 8:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

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

    15 Then God spoke to Noah and said,

  • 21 When the fish that were in the Nile died, the Nile began to stink, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood everywhere in the land of Egypt!

  • 20 Of the birds after their kinds, and of the cattle after their kinds, and of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you so you can keep them alive.

  • 27 People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage– right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

  • 22 Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?