Genesis 7:17-24

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¹⁷ ·Water flooded the earth [^LThe flood continued] for forty days, and as it rose it lifted the ·boat [ark] off the ground. ¹⁸ The water continued to rise [^Land increase], and the ·boat [ark] floated on ·it above the earth [^Lthe face of the waters]. ¹⁹ The water rose so much [^Lover the earth] that even the highest mountains under the ·sky [heavens] were covered by it. ²⁰ It continued to rise until it was more than ·twenty feet [^Lfifteen cubits] above the mountains.

²¹ All ·living things [^Lflesh] that moved on the earth died. This included all the birds, tame animals, wild animals, and [^Lswarming] creatures that swarm on the earth, as well as all human beings. ²² So everything on dry land that had the breath of life in ·it [^Lits nostrils] died. ²³ God ·destroyed [blotted/wiped out] from the earth every living thing that was on the ·land [^Lface of the ground]—every man, animal, ·crawling [creeping] thing, and bird of the ·sky [heavens]. All that ·was left [survived] was Noah and what was with him in the ·boat [ark]. ²⁴ And the waters continued to cover the earth for one hundred fifty days.