Genesis 7:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²³ He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ God destroyed (blotted out) every living thing that was upon the face of the earth; man and animals and the creeping things and the birds of the heavens were destroyed (blotted out) from the land. Only Noah remained alive, and those who were with him in the ark. [Matt. 24:37-44.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only was left, and they that were with him in the ark.

Common English Bible

²³ God wiped away every living thing that was on the fertile land—from human beings to livestock to crawling things to birds in the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those with him in the ark were left.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ And he wiped away all substance that was upon the earth, from man to animal, the crawling things just as much as the flying things of the air. And they were wiped away from the earth. But only Noah remained, and those who were with him in the ark.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ And he destroyed all the substance that was upon the earth, from man to beast, and the creeping things and fowls of the air: and they were destroyed from the earth. And Noe only remained, and they that were with him in the ark.

Genesis 7:23 Cross References

Genesis 6:17

For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall die.

Genesis 8:18

So Noah went forth, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.

Job 5:19

He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven there shall no evil touch you.

Psalm 91:1

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, who abides in the shadow of the Almighty,

Psalm 91:7

A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.

Proverbs 11:4

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

Matthew 25:46

And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, took heed and constructed an ark for the saving of his household; by this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which comes by faith.

1 Peter 3:20

who formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water.

2 Peter 2:5

if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven other persons, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

2 Peter 2:9

then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,

2 Peter 3:6

through which the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished.