Genesis 7:17
The flood continued for forty days, and the waters increased and raised up the ark, and it was lifted high above the earth.
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In Context
16They went in, male and female, as God had commanded Noah; and the Lord shut Noah in the ark.
18It floated on the surface as the waters rose higher over the land.
Cross References
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.”
Amos 9:6The one who builds in the heavens, who sets the dome of the sky over the earth, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them out on 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 →