Genesis 7:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ the waters swelled above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ [In fact] the waters became fifteen cubits higher, as the high hills were covered.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

Common English Bible

²⁰ The waters rose twenty-three feet high, covering the mountains.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered.

Genesis 7:20 Cross References

Genesis 6:15

This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

Genesis 7:19

The waters swelled so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered;

Genesis 8:4

and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

Psalm 104:6

You cover it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

Jeremiah 3:23

Truly the hills are a delusion, a tumult on the mountains. Truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.