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What does Genesis 7:17 mean?
"The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth."
— Genesis 7:17 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.
Pairs from all flesh with the breath of life in them went into the ship to Noah.
Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then Yahweh shut him in.
The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.
The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.
The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.
The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.
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