2 Peter 3:6 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

[And] it was by water that the world, which existed at that time, perished in a great flood [of Noah’s day]!

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whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

Through which the world that then [existed] was deluged with water and perished. [Gen. 1:6-8; 7:11.]

by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

And it was through these that the world of that time was flooded and destroyed.

By water, the former world then, having been inundated with water, perished.

Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.