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Water covers the earth

2347 BC, lasting 150 days traditional (Jones)

Passage
Gen 7:18-24
People
Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth
Before
The Great Flood begins
After
The flood subsides

Participants

Taking part, as Theographic records them, most often named first.

Every verse

All 7 verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Genesis7 verses
  1. 7:18

    So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

  2. 7:19

    Finally, the waters completely prevailed upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.

  3. 7:20

    The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.

  4. 7:21

    And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.

  5. 7:22

    Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

  6. 7:23

    And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.

  7. 7:24

    And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.