Genesis 7:20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.

English Standard Version
The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep.

New American Standard Bible
The water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.

King James Bible
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The mountains were covered as the waters surged above them more than 20 feet.

International Standard Version
The flood waters rose 15 cubits above the mountains.

American Standard Version
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered.

Darby Bible Translation
Fifteen cubits upward the waters prevailed; and the mountains were covered.

Young's Literal Translation
fifteen cubits upwards have the waters become mighty, and the mountains are covered;

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

7:17-20 The flood was increasing forty days. The waters rose so high, that the tops of the highest mountains were overflowed more than twenty feet. There is no place on earth so high as to set men out of the reach of God's judgments. God's hand will find out all his enemies, Ps 21:8. When the flood thus increased, Noah's ark was lifted up, and the waters which broke down every thing else, bore up the ark. That which to unbelievers betokens death unto death, to the faithful betokens life unto life.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

20. Fifteen cubits upward … and the mountains were covered—twenty-two and a half feet above the summits of the highest hills. The language is not consistent with the theory of a partial deluge.