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The Book of Genesis, Chapter 7, Verse 17

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And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
King James Version
And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
American Standard Version
And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
New English Translation
The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.
World English Bible
The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.
18
And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
19
And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that [were] under the whole heaven, were covered.
20
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
21
And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
22
All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of all that [was] in the dry [land], died.
23
And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained [alive], and they that [were] with him in the ark.
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And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
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And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
2
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
3
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.