All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
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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…
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…
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.
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…