And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
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Gill's Exposition
And all flesh died that moved upon the earth,.... That had animal life in them, of which motion was a sign:
both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth on…
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…
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…
Cambridge Bible
all the high mountains The account, given by P, describes the covering of the mountains of the whole earth by the waters of the Deluge. It is this hyperbolical description which has naturally seized…
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