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Genesis 7:18
Genesis 7:18 is verse 18 of Genesis chapter 7, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
King James Version
And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
World English Bible
The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.
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Genesis 7:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible
16 And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
17 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
18 So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
19 Finally, the waters completely inundated the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.
20 The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Exodus 14:28The waters flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had chased the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.
Job 22:16They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
Psalms 69:15Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.
Psalms 104:26There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.