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Genesis 7:17

Genesis 7:17
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.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth,.... Yet more and more, so that the people without the ark were obliged to remove, not only from the lower to the higher rooms in their houses, and to…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Genesis 7:17-24

The prevalence of the waters. The forty days are now completed. And at the end of this period the ark had been afloat for a long time. It was drifted on the waters in the direction in which they were…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Genesis 7:17-20

We are here told,

I. How long the flood was increasing - forty days, Gen 7:17. The profane world, who believed not that it would come, probably when it came flattered themselves with hopes that it…

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