Genesis 7:20
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New International Version (©1984)
The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
It rose 23 feet above the mountaintops.

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

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

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

Bible in Basic English
The waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all 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.

English Revised Version
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

Webster's Bible Translation
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail: and the mountains were covered.

World English Bible
The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.

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

Geneva Study Bible

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

Wesley's Notes

7:20 The mountains were covered - Therefore there were mountains before the flood.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

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.

Matthew Henry's Concise 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.


Genesis 8:4 In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat. (NASB ©1995)

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

and the mountains. Ps 104:6 Jer 3:23

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