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Genesis 7:19 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered. "
Genesis 7:19
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
17 The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.
18 The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.
19 The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.
20 The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.
21 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.
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Genesis 7:1
"The LORD said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation."
Genesis 7:2
"You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female."
Genesis 7:3
"Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth."
Genesis 7:4
"In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”"
Genesis 7:5
"Noah did everything that the LORD commanded him."
Genesis 7:6
"Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth."
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