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Genesis 7:23 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship. "
Genesis 7:23
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21 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.
22 All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.
24 The waters flooded the earth one hundred fifty days.
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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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