The Great Flood
Genesis 7:19
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Finally, the waters completely inundated the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.
- KJV
- And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
- WEB
- The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.
- ASV
- And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered.
- LSV
- And the waters have been very, very mighty on the earth, and all the high mountains are covered which [are] under the whole heavens;
- YLT
- And the waters have been very very mighty on the earth, and covered are all the high mountains which [are] under the whole heavens;
- DBY
- And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth; and all the high mountains that are under all the heavens were covered.
- DRC
- And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.
- GNV
- The waters preuailed so exceedingly vpon the earth, that all the high mountaines, that are vnder the whole heauen, were couered.
- JPS
- And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered.
- LXXE
- And the water prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and covered all the high mountains which were under heaven.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- וְהַמַּ֗יִם גָּֽבְר֛וּ מְאֹ֥ד מְאֹ֖ד עַל־הָאָ֑רֶץ וַיְכֻסּ֗וּ כָּל־הֶֽהָרִים֙ הַגְּבֹהִ֔ים אֲשֶׁר־תַּ֖חַת כָּל־הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃
- LXX-Br
- Τὸ δὲ ὕδωρ ἐπεκράτει σφόδρα σφόδρα ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς· καὶ ἐκάλυψε πάντα τὰ ὄρη τὰ ὑψηλὰ, ἃ ἦν ὑποκάτω τοῦ οὐρανοῦ.
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◆ The Great Flood◆ Water covers the earth
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Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 104:6–9You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away— the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place…
- 2 Peter 3:6through which the world of that time perished in the flood.
- Psalms 46:2–3Therefore we will not fear, though the earth is transformed and the mountains are toppled into the depths of the seas, though their waters roar and foam and the mountains quake in the surge. Selah
- Job 12:15If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.
- Jeremiah 3:23Surely deception comes from the hills, and commotion from the mountains. Surely the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God.
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