Genesis 7:17

For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

In Context

16And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.

18So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:4For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”

Amos 9:6He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth. The LORD is His name.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 7:14-17

13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; 14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. 15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. 16 And they that went in, went in male and female of… Read the whole commentary →

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