Genesis 7:20-24

7:20

mountains <02022> [and the mountains.]

7:21

7:22

breath ... life <02416 05397> [breath of life. Heb. breath of the spirit of life.]

7:23

living thing <03351> [every living substance.]

The most incontestable evidence has been afforded of the universality of this fact: the moose deer, a native of America, has been found buried in Ireland; elephants, native of Asia and Africa, in the midst of England; crocodiles, natives of the Nile, in the heart of Germany; and shell fish, never known in any but the American seas, with the entire skeletons of whales, in the most inland counties of England.

Noah <05146> [and Noah.]

7:24

[compare with ver. 11 of this chapter.]

The breaking up of the fountains of the great deep, and the raining forty days and nights, had raised the waters fifteen cubits, or twenty-two feet and a half, above the highest mountain; after which forty days, it appears to have continued at this height one hundred and fifty days more.