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Genesis 7:21

in Genesis 7

And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both birds, and cattle, and beasts, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

KJV

And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

This verse in Genesis 7

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Besides, now that the human race was reduced to one single family, it was necessary that the beasts should be proportionally diminished, otherwise by their numbers they would have acquired the ascendancy and overmastered the few that were to repeople the world. Thus goodness was mingled with severity; the Lord exercises judgment in wisdom and in wrath remembers mercy.

This site's exposition

every living thing that moved upon the earth

on Genesis 7:21-24

The dying is stated and never described. The single line of hope is that those in the ark remained. Jesus took these days as the picture of His own coming, that people ate and drank and married until the day Noah entered the ark, at Matthew 24:38 and 39. The water stands over the earth for 150 days.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

Herein his holiness and justice were greatly magnified: by this it appears that he hates sin, and is highly displeased with sinners, when even the inferior creatures, because they are the servants of man, and part of his possession, and because they have been abused to be the servants of sin, are destroyed with him.

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A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

Herein his holiness and justice were greatly magnified: by this it appears that he hates sin, and is highly displeased with sinners, when even the inferior creatures, because they are the servants of man, and part of his possession, and because they have been abused to be the servants of sin, are destroyed with him.
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 earth; excepting those that were in the ark.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Besides, now that the human race was reduced to one single family, it was necessary that the beasts should be proportionally diminished, otherwise by their numbers they would have acquired the ascendancy and overmastered the few that were to repeople the world. Thus goodness was mingled with severity; the Lord exercises judgment in wisdom and in wrath remembers mercy.

The words behind it

16 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּגְוַ֞עand it died

    vaiyigva'H1478 →24 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • בָּשָׂ֣ר׀flesh

    basarH1320 →270 times

  • הָרֹמֵ֣שׂwhich crept

    haromesH7430 →17 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הָאָ֗רֶץthe earth

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • בָּע֤וֹףamong the bird[s]

    baofH5775 →71 times

  • וּבַבְּהֵמָה֙and among the livestock

    uvabehemahH929 →190 times

  • וּבַ֣חַיָּ֔הand among the animal[s]

    uvachaiyahH2416 →498 times

  • וּבְכָל־and among every

    uvekhol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַשֶּׁ֖רֶץ<the> swarming thing

    hasheretzH8318 →

  • הַשֹּׁרֵ֣ץwhich swarms

    hashoretzH8317 →14 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הָאָ֑רֶץthe earth

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • וְכֹ֖לand every

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • הָאָדָֽם׃<the> human

    haadamH120 →551 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Romans 8:20

    For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope

    it leads to

    • Genesis 3:17–19

      And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because…

    • Genesis 5:29

      And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”

    • Romans 8:22

      We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.

    • Jeremiah 12:4

      How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said,…

  • Through

    Genesis 6:17

    And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 7:4

      For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”

    • 2 Peter 2:5

      if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;

    • Genesis 7:21–23

      And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.

  • Through

    Genesis 6:13

    Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.

    it leads to

    • Hosea 4:1–2

      Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God…

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

The Great Flood — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Great Flood — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Calvin, Commentary on Genesis; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.