Genesis 7:21
Good News Translation
Every living being on the earth died--every bird, every animal, and every person.

New Revised Standard Version
And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all human beings;

Contemporary English Version
Not a bird, animal, reptile, or human was left alive anywhere on earth.

New American Bible
All creatures that moved on earth perished: birds, tame animals, wild animals, and all that teemed on the earth, as well as all humankind.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth: and all men.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth: and all men.

Genesis 7:4 For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.

Genesis 6:6,7,13,17 It repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart, . . .

Job 22:15-17 Dost thou desire to keep the path of ages, which wicked men have spurned? . . .

Isaiah 24:6,19 Therefore shall a curse devour the earth, and the inhabitants thereof shall sin: and therefore they that dwell therein shall be mad, and few men shall be left. . . .

Jeremiah 4:22-27 For my foolish people have not known me: they are foolish and senseless children: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. . . .

Jeremiah 12:3,4 And thou, O Lord, hast known me, thou hast seen me, and proved my heart with thee: gather them together as for the day of slaughter. . . .

Hosea 4:3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth in it shall languish with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the air: yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be gathered together.

Joel 1:17-20 The beasts have rotted in their dung, the barns are destroyed, the storehouses are broken down: because the corn is confounded. . . .

Joel 2:3 Before the face thereof a devouring fire, and behind it a burning flame: the land is like a garden of pleasure before it, and behind it a desolate wilderness, neither is there any one that can escape it.

Zephaniah 1:3 I will gather man, and beast, I will gather the birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea: and the ungodly shall meet with ruin: and I will destroy men from off the face of the land, saith the Lord.

Matthew 24:39 And they knew not till the flood came and took them all away: so also shall the coming of the Son of man be.

Luke 17:27 They did eat and drink, they married wives and were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all.

Romans 8:20,22 For the creature was made subject to vanity: not willingly, but by reason of him that made it subject, in hope. . . .

2 Peter 2:5 And spared not the original world, but preserved Noe, the eighth person, the preacher of justice, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly.

Context
The Duration of the Flood
20The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered. 21And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth: and all men.22And all things wherein there is the breath of life on the earth, died.…
Cross References
Genesis 1:25
And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, and cattle, and every thing that creepeth on the earth after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 6:7
He said: I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them.

Genesis 6:13
He said to Noe: The end of all flesh is come before me, the earth is filled with iniquity through them, and I will destroy them with the earth.

Genesis 7:4
For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.

Job 34:15
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return into ashes.

Genesis 7:20
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