Genesis 7:19

New Living Translation

Finally, the water covered even the highest mountains on the earth,

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As the waters rose higher and higher above the ground, the boat floated safely on the surface.

rising more than twenty-two feet above the highest peaks.

If he holds back the rain, the earth becomes a desert. If he releases the waters, they flood the earth.

Our worship of idols on the hills and our religious orgies on the mountains are a delusion. Only in the Lord our God will Israel ever find salvation.

Then he used the water to destroy the ancient world with a mighty flood.