Genesis 7:23
God destroyed every living creature: People and animals and creatures that scurry across the ground and birds. Only Noah and those who were in the boat with him remained alive.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
22On the land, ◄everything that breathed/every living thing► died.
24The flood remained like that on the earth for 150 days.
Cross References
Genesis 7:21As 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.
Exodus 14:28The water returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen and the whole Egyptian army that had tried to follow us Israelis into the sea. Every one of the Egyptians drowned.
Job 22:15Will you continue to conduct your life the old way that evil people have done for many years?
Psalms 91:7Even if 1,000 people fall dead alongside you, even if 10,000 people are dying around you, you will not be harmed.
Proverbs 11:4Your money will not help you on the day that God judges and punishes people; but if you live righteously, you will live a long time.
Ezekiel 14:14even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were there, they would save only themselves because of their being righteous. That is what I, Yahweh the Lord, declare.
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 →