◄ Genesis 7:20 ►
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Good News Translation
it went on rising until it was about twenty-five feet above the tops of the mountains.

New Revised Standard Version
the waters swelled above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep.

New American Bible
The waters swelled fifteen cubits higher than the submerged mountains.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered.

and the mountains.

Psalm 104:6 The deep like a garment is its clothing: above the mountains shall the waters stand.

Jeremiah 3:23 In very deed the hills were liars, and the multitude of the mountains: truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.

Context
The Duration of the Flood
…19And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered. 20The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered.21And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth: and all men.…
Cross References
Genesis 7:19
And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.

Genesis 8:4
And the ark rested in the seventh month, the seven and twentieth day of the month, upon the mountains of Armenia.

Genesis 7:19
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