Genesis 6:17
For I am about to bring floods of water upon the earth to destroy from under heaven every living thing in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth will die.
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In The King James Version
In Context
18“But I will make a covenant with you. Go into the ark with your sons, your wife and their wives,
Cross References
Genesis 6:7Therefore the Lord said, “I will destroy all living beings from off the ground – people, animals, creeping things, and birds – because I regret that I have made them.”
Genesis 7:4After seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy from the surface of the ground every living thing that I have made.”
Genesis 7:17The flood continued for forty days, and the waters increased and raised up the ark, and it was lifted high above the earth.
Genesis 7:23The Lord destroyed everything that existed upon the face of the ground, both man and cattle, and creeping things, and the birds of the heavens, and Noah only was left and they who were with him in the ark.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 6:14-22
Prediction of the Deluge. ( b. c. 2448.) 13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 16 A window… Read the whole commentary →