Genesis 7:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

And this is how thou shalt make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

Genesis 7:19

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered.

Genesis 8:4

And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

Psalm 104:6

Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a vesture; The waters stood above the mountains.

Jeremiah 3:23

Truly in vain is the help that is looked for from the hills, the tumult on the mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.