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.