Genesis 7:23

World English Bible (2000)

Every 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.

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  • 2 Pet 2:5 : 5 and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;
  • 1 Pet 3:20 : 20 who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
  • Heb 11:7 : 7 By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
  • Luke 17:26-27 : 26 As it happened in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man. 27 They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;
  • 2 Pet 3:6 : 6 by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.
  • Gen 7:21-22 : 21 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man. 22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.
  • Exod 14:28-30 : 28 The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh's army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them. 29 But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left. 30 Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
  • Job 5:19 : 19 He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil shall touch you.
  • Job 22:15-17 : 15 Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden, 16 who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream, 17 who said to God, 'Depart from us;' and, 'What can the Almighty do for us?'
  • Ps 91:1 : 1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
  • Ps 91:9-9 : 9 Because you have made Yahweh your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place, 10 no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.
  • Prov 11:4 : 4 Riches don't profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
  • Isa 24:1-8 : 1 Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants. 2 It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest. 3 The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word. 4 The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish. 5 The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. 7 The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh. 8 The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.
  • Ezek 14:14-20 : 14 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says the Lord Yahweh. 15 If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals; 16 though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only should be delivered, but the land should be desolate. 17 Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal; 18 though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only should be delivered themselves. 19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal; 20 though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
  • Mal 3:17-18 : 17 They shall be mine," says Yahweh of Armies, "my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him. 18 Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn't serve him.
  • Matt 24:37-39 : 37 "As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, 39 and they didn't know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
  • Matt 25:46 : 46 These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."

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  • Gen 7:12-22
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    87%

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

    13 In 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;

    14 they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

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

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

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

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

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

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

    21 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

    22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

  • Gen 7:24
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    24 The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.

  • Gen 7:1-10
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    1 Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

    2 You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.

    3 Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.

    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."

    5 Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.

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

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

    8 Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground

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

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

  • Gen 6:12-13
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    12 God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

    13 God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

  • Gen 6:17
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    17 I, 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 8:19
    78%

    19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

  • Gen 9:10
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    10 and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.

  • Gen 8:17
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    17 Bring 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."

  • Gen 6:7
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    7 Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."

  • Gen 8:1-3
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    1 God 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.

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

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

  • Gen 8:13-14
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    13 It 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.

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

  • 2 Pet 2:5
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    5 and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

  • Gen 8:7
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    7 and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

  • 2 Pet 3:6
    73%

    6 by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

  • Gen 6:19-20
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    73%

    19 Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

    20 Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.