Genesis 7:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:16

And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.

Genesis 7:18

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

Genesis 7:4

For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the ground.

Amos 9:6

it is he that buildeth his chambers in the heaven, and hath founded his vault upon the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea and poureth them out upon the face of the earth; the LORD is his name.