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Genesis 7:22

Genesis 7:22
All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And the waters prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days. Which is to be reckoned not from the end of the forty days' rain, but from the beginning of the flood; for from the seventeenth day…

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…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Of all that was in the dry land - From this we may conclude that such animals only as could not live in the water were preserved in the ark.

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Genesis 7:21-24

Here is, I. The general destruction of all flesh by the waters of the flood. Come, and see the desolations which God makes in the earth (Psa 46:8), and how he lays heaps upon heaps. Never did death…

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