Genesis 7:21
As 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.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
20Even the highest mountains were covered by more than ◄20 feet/6 meters► of water.
22On the land, ◄everything that breathed/every living thing► died.
Cross References
Genesis 6:13So God said to Noah, “I have decided to destroy everyone, because all over the earth people are acting violently toward each other. So I am about to get rid of them as well as everything else on the earth.
Genesis 7:4Do this because seven days from now I will cause rain to fall on the earth. It will rain constantly for 40 days and nights. By doing that, I will destroy everything that I have made that is on the earth.”
Isaiah 24:6Therefore, Yahweh will curse the earth; the people who live on it must be punished because of the sins that they have committed. They will be destroyed by fire, and only a few people will remain alive.
Jeremiah 4:22Yahweh says, “My people are very foolish! They do not have a relationship with me. They are like [MET] stupid children who do not understand anything. They very cleverly do what is wrong, but they do not know how to do what is good.”
Hosea 4:3It is because of their doing those things that there is no rain [MTY], the land has become dry, the people are mourning, and the people are dying from hunger. Even the wild animals and the birds and the fish in the sea are dying.
Joel 2:3It is as though the locusts bring flames of fire from which no one can escape. In front of them, the land was beautiful like [SIM] the garden of Eden, but behind them the land is like a desert and nothing survives.
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 →