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Today's Bible Reading :: Genesis 4 - 7 (ESV)

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Genesis 4

Cain and Abel

(Luk 11:51; Heb 11:4; 12:24 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:1 - Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten[fn] a man with the help of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:2 - And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:3 - In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:4 - and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and his offering,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:5 - but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:6 - The LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:7 - If you do well, will you not be accepted?[fn] And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for[fn] you, and you must rule over it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:8 - Cain spoke to Abel his brother.[fn] And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:9 - Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother’s keeper?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:10 - And the LORD said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:11 - And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:12 - When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:13 - Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:14 - Behold, you have driven me today away from the ground, and from your face I shall be hidden. I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:15 - Then the LORD said to him, “Not so! If anyone kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.” And the LORD put a mark on Cain, lest any who found him should attack him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:16 - Then Cain went away from the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod,[fn] east of Eden.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:17 - Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. When he built a city, he called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:18 - To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad fathered Mehujael, and Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:19 - And Lamech took two wives. The name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:20 - Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:21 - His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:22 - Zillah also bore Tubal-cain; he was the forger of all instruments of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:23 - Lamech said to his wives:
“Adah and Zillah, hear my voice;
you wives of Lamech, listen to what I say:
I have killed a man for wounding me,
a young man for striking me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:24 - If Cain’s revenge is sevenfold,
then Lamech’s is seventy-sevenfold.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:25 - And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth, for she said, “God has appointed[fn] for me another offspring instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:26 - To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time people began to call upon the name of the LORD.
ESV Footnotes
Cain sounds like the Hebrew for gotten
Hebrew will there not be a lifting up [of your face]?
Or to, or toward, or against (see 3:16)
Hebrew; Samaritan, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate add Let us go out to the field
Or My guilt is too great to bear
Nod means wandering
Seth sounds like the Hebrew for he appointed

Genesis 5

Adam’s Descendants to Noah

(1Ch 1:1–4; Luk 3:36–38 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:1 - This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:2 - Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man[fn] when they were created.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:3 - When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:4 - The days of Adam after he fathered Seth were 800 years; and he had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:5 - Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:6 - When Seth had lived 105 years, he fathered Enosh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:7 - Seth lived after he fathered Enosh 807 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:8 - Thus all the days of Seth were 912 years, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:9 - When Enosh had lived 90 years, he fathered Kenan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:10 - Enosh lived after he fathered Kenan 815 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:11 - Thus all the days of Enosh were 905 years, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:12 - When Kenan had lived 70 years, he fathered Mahalalel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:13 - Kenan lived after he fathered Mahalalel 840 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:14 - Thus all the days of Kenan were 910 years, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:15 - When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he fathered Jared.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:16 - Mahalalel lived after he fathered Jared 830 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:17 - Thus all the days of Mahalalel were 895 years, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:18 - When Jared had lived 162 years, he fathered Enoch.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:19 - Jared lived after he fathered Enoch 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:20 - Thus all the days of Jared were 962 years, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:21 - When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:22 - Enoch walked with God[fn] after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:23 - Thus all the days of Enoch were 365 years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:24 - Enoch walked with God, and he was not,[fn] for God took him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:25 - When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he fathered Lamech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:26 - Methuselah lived after he fathered Lamech 782 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:27 - Thus all the days of Methuselah were 969 years, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:28 - When Lamech had lived 182 years, he fathered a son

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:29 - and called his name Noah, saying, “Out of the ground that the LORD has cursed, this one shall bring us relief[fn] from our work and from the painful toil of our hands.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:30 - Lamech lived after he fathered Noah 595 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:31 - Thus all the days of Lamech were 777 years, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:32 - After Noah was 500 years old, Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
ESV Footnotes
Hebrew adam
Septuagint pleased God; also verse 24
Septuagint was not found
Noah sounds like the Hebrew for rest

Genesis 6

Increasing Corruption on Earth

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:1 - When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:2 - the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:3 - Then the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not abide in[fn] man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:4 - The Nephilim[fn] were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:5 - The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:6 - And the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:7 - So the LORD said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:8 - But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

Noah and the Flood

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:9 - These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:10 - And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:11 - Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:12 - And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
(Heb 11:7; 1Pe 3:20 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:13 - And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh,[fn] for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:14 - Make yourself an ark of gopher wood.[fn] Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:15 - This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark 300 cubits,[fn] its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:16 - Make a roof[fn] for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above, and set the door of the ark in its side. Make it with lower, second, and third decks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 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 under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:18 - But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:19 - And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:20 - Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground, according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you to keep them alive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:21 - Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and store it up. It shall serve as food for you and for them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:22 - Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.
ESV Footnotes
Or My Spirit shall not contend with
Or giants
Hebrew The end of all flesh has come before me
Transliterated from Hebrew; the identity of this tree is uncertain
A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
Or skylight

Genesis 7

(Luk 17:26, 27 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:1 - Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:2 - Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals,[fn] the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:3 - and seven pairs[fn] of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:4 - For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing[fn] that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:5 - And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:6 - Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:7 - And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:8 - Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:9 - two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:10 - And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:11 - In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:12 - And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:13 - On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:14 - they and every beast, according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, according to its kind, and every bird, according to its kind, every winged creature.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:15 - They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:16 - And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him. And the LORD shut him in.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:17 - The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:18 - The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:19 - And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:20 - The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits[fn] deep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:21 - And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:22 - Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:23 - He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:24 - And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.
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ESV Footnotes
Or seven of each kind of clean animal
Or seven of each kind
Hebrew all existence; also verse 23
A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
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