A moment in scripture
Genesis 7:23
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And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
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The surrounding passage
- Genesis 7:21
And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
- Genesis 7:22
All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
- Genesis 7:24
And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.