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20 rising more than twenty-two feet[a] above the highest peaks.

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  1. 7:20 Hebrew 15 cubits [6.9 meters].

20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.[a][b] (A)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 7:20 That is, about 23 feet or about 6.8 meters
  2. Genesis 7:20 Or rose more than fifteen cubits, and the mountains were covered

23 Our worship of idols on the hills
    and our religious orgies on the mountains
    are a delusion.
Only in the Lord our God
    will Israel ever find salvation.

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23 Surely the idolatrous commotion on the hills(A)
    and mountains is a deception;
surely in the Lord our God
    is the salvation(B) of Israel.

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You clothed the earth with floods of water,
    water that covered even the mountains.

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You covered it(A) with the watery depths(B) as with a garment;
    the waters stood(C) above the mountains.

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