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Genesis 7:20

Even the highest mountains were covered by more than ◄20 feet/6 meters► of water.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

In Context

19The water rose all over the earth until it covered all the mountains.

21As a result, every living creature on the surface of the earth died. That included birds and livestock and wild animals and other creatures that scurry across the ground, and all the people.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:15This is the size you must make it: It shall be ◄150 yards/135 meters► long, ◄25 yards/22.5 meters► wide, and ◄15 yards/13.5 meters► high.

Jeremiah 3:23We did not get any help from the idols that we worshiped on the hilltops; we did not get any help from making all that noise up there.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 7:18-21

17 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. 18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. We are here told, I. How long the flood was increasing— forty… Read the whole commentary →

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