17The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.


In Context

14 they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

15 They went to Noah into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.

16 Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Yahweh shut him in.

17 The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.

18 The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.

19 The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

Genesis 7:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:17And 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:17For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:17And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from earth.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:17And 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:17And the flood was forty days on the earth. And the waters increased, and bore up the ark; and it was lifted up above the earth.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:17And 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:17And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted above the earth.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:17And the deluge is forty days on the earth, and the waters multiply, and lift up the ark, and it is raised up from off the earth;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:17And the flood was forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.