Genesis 7:18 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁸ The waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark floated on the face of the waters.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ And the waters became mighty and increased greatly upon the land, and the ark went [gently floating] upon the surface of the waters.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ The waters rose and spread out over the earth. The ark floated on the surface of the waters.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ For they overflowed greatly, and they filled everything on the surface of the earth. And then the ark was carried across the waters.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled all on the face of the earth: and the ark was carried upon the waters.

Genesis 7:18 Cross References

Genesis 7:17

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

Genesis 7:19

And the waters prevailed so mightily upon the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered;

Job 22:16

They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.

Psalm 104:26

There go the ships, and Leviathan which thou didst form to sport in it.

Psalm 69:15

Let not the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the pit close its mouth over me.

Exodus 14:28

The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen and all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea; not so much as one of them remained.