Genesis 7:17

And there was a deluge forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased, and took up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

Targum Onkelos

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, entering, male and female of all flesh, entered, as the Lord had commanded him, and the Lord protected them by His Word.

18And the waters prevailed and increased mightily upon the earth, and the ark went upon the faces of the waters.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:4Because yet a time of seven days and I will cause rain to descend upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will blot out every subsistence which I have made upon all the face of the earth.

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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