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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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
And the deluge is forty days on the earth, and the waters multiply, and lift up the ark, and it is raised up from off the earth;
And the flood was forty days on the earth. And the waters increased, and bore up the ark; and it was lifted up above the earth.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentGenesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
- Author
- Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
- Date
- Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)