Genesis 7:22

everything on dry land in whose nostrils was the faintest breath of life, died.

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

In Context

21All creatures on the land, bird and cattle and animals, every creature that swarms on the ground, every person,

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.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:17For 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.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 7:22-24

21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: 22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. 23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the… Read the whole commentary →

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