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Text -- Genesis 7:20-24 (NET)
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7:20 The waters rose more than twenty feet above the mountains .
7:21 And all living things that moved on the earth died , including the birds , domestic animals , wild animals , all the creatures that swarm over the earth , and all humankind .
7:22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died .
7:23 So the Lord destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground , including people , animals, creatures that creep along the ground , and birds of the sky . They were wiped off the earth . Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived .
7:24 The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 days .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Flood |
Miracles |
Judgments |
God |
Rain |
Deluge |
Religion |
Noah |
Judgments of God |
Antediluvians |
Sin |
Breath |
HEART |
ANTHROPOLOGY |
Heaven |
BREATH; BREATHE; BREATHING |
DELUGE OF NOAH |
LIFE |
EXODUS, THE BOOK OF, 2 |
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES |
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NET Notes: Gen 7:20 Heb “the waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward and they covered the mountains.” Obviously, a flood of twenty feet did not cover the mount...
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NET Notes: Gen 7:22 Heb “everything which [has] the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils from all which is in the dry land.”
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NET Notes: Gen 7:23 The Hebrew verb שָׁאָר (sha’ar) means “to be left over; to survive” in the Niphal verb stem. It ...
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