Genesis 7:21 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 7:21

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

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:

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Commentary

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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.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּגְוַ֞ע	vai.yig.Va'	and it died	H1478 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
בָּשָׂ֣ר׀	ba.Sar	flesh	H1320 →
הָרֹמֵ֣שׂ	ha.ro.Mes	which crept	H7430 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
הָאָ֗רֶץ	ha.'A.retz	the earth	H776 →
בָּע֤וֹף	ba.'of	among the bird[s]	H5775 →
וּבַבְּהֵמָה֙	u.va.be.he.Mah	and among the livestock	H929 →
וּבַ֣חַיָּ֔ה	u.Va.chai.Yah	and among the animal[s]	H2416 →
וּבְכָל־	u.ve.Khol-	and among every	H3605 →
הַשֶּׁ֖רֶץ	ha.She.retz	<the> swarming thing	H8318 →
הַשֹּׁרֵ֣ץ	ha.sho.Retz	which swarms	H8317 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
הָאָ֑רֶץ	ha.'A.retz	the earth	H776 →
וְכֹ֖ל	ve.Khol	and every	H3605 →
הָאָדָֽם׃	ha.'a.Dam	<the> human	H120 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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
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.
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.
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…