Genesis 7:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ The flood continued forty days on the earth, and the waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ The flood [that is, the downpour of rain] was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased and bore up the ark, and it was lifted [high] above the land.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ And 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ The flood remained on the earth for forty days. The waters rose, lifted the ark, and it rode high above the earth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And the great flood occurred for forty days upon the earth. And the waters were increased, and they lifted the ark high above the land.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from earth.

Genesis 7:17 Cross References

Genesis 7:12

The rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:16

And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him, and the Lord shut him in.

Genesis 7:18

The waters swelled and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters.

Genesis 7:4

For in seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”

Amos 9:6

who builds his upper chambers in the heavens and founds his vault upon the earth, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the surface of the earth— the Lord is his name.