Genesis 7:18 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁸ The waters overpowered and became very mighty over the land, and the ark drifted on the surface of the water.

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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.

Genesis 7:18 Cross References

Genesis 7:17

The flood was forty days upon the land, and the waters increased and lifted the ark, so that it rose above the land.

Genesis 7:19

The waters completely overpowered the land so that all the high mountains beneath the entire sky were covered.

Job 22:16

They were snatched away before their time, their foundations washed away by a river.

Psalm 104:26

There, ships go to and fro. Leviathan—You formed to frolic there.

Psalm 69:15

Deliver me from the mire— do not let me sink. Deliver me from those who hate me, out of the deep waters.

Exodus 14:28

The waters returned and covered the chariots, the horsemen and the entire army of Pharaoh that went after them into the sea. Not one of them remained.