20 The water prevailed [a]fifteen cubits higher, (A)and the mountains were covered. 21 So (B)all [b]creatures that moved on the earth perished: birds, livestock, animals, and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind; 22 of all that was on the dry land, all (C)in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 7:20 About 23 ft. or 6.7 m
  2. Genesis 7:21 Lit flesh

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