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The Great Flood

Genesis 7:24

In 11 translations

BSB
And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.
KJV
And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
WEB
The waters flooded the earth one hundred fifty days.
ASV
And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
LSV
and the waters are mighty on the earth [for] one hundred and fifty days.
YLT
and the waters are mighty on the earth a hundred and fifty days.
DBY
And the waters prevailed on the earth a hundred and fifty days.
DRC
And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
GNV
And the waters preuailed vpon the earth an hundreth and fiftie dayes.
JPS
And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
LXXE
And the water was raised over the earth an hundred and fifty days.

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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
וַיִּגְבְּר֥וּ הַמַּ֖יִם עַל־הָאָ֑רֶץ חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וּמְאַ֖ת יֽוֹם׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ὑψώθη τὸ ὕδωρ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἡμέρας ἑκατὸν πεντήκοντα.

Who and where

◆ The Great Flood◆ Water covers the earth

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Part of

  • Noah and the Flood God sees violence filling the earth and decides to destroy it; righteous Noah, his household and animals survive in the ark while all life o…

Cross-references most cited first

  • Genesis 8:3–4The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down. On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

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