Genesis 7:17

World English Bible (2000)

The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.

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  • Gen 7:4 : 4 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."
  • Gen 7:12 : 12 The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

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  • Gen 7:18-20
    3 verses
    90%

    18The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.

    19The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

    20The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.

  • Gen 7:9-13
    5 verses
    88%

    9went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

    10It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the earth.

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

    12The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

    13In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship;

  • Gen 7:23-24
    2 verses
    86%

    23Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

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

  • Gen 7:4-7
    4 verses
    83%

    4In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."

    5Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.

    6Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.

    7Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.

  • Gen 8:1-7
    7 verses
    82%

    1God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

    2The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

    3The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.

    4The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.

    5The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

    6It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

    7and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

  • Gen 8:12-15
    4 verses
    79%

    12He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.

    13It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.

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

    15God spoke to Noah, saying,

  • Gen 8:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

    9but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ship; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.

    10He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship.

  • Gen 7:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15They went to Noah into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.

    16Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Yahweh shut him in.

  • Gen 7:1
    74%

    1Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

  • Gen 6:17
    74%

    17I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

  • Gen 8:17
    73%

    17Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."