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Genesis 7:24

Genesis 7:24
And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

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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

And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days - The breaking up of the fountains of the great deep, and the raining forty days and nights, had raised the waters fifteen cubits above…

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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