Genesis 7 · Verse 24

Genesis 7:24

And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
Genesis 7:24, King James Version

Genesis 7:24 in other translations

BSBAnd the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.
WEBThe waters flooded the earth one hundred fifty days.
ASVAnd the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
YLTand the waters are mighty on the earth a hundred and fifty days.
DARBYAnd the waters prevailed on the earth a hundred and fifty days.
BBEAnd the waters were over the earth a hundred and fifty days.
WebsterAnd the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.

What does Genesis 7:24 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
24. an hundred and fifty days--a period of five months. Though long before that every living creature must have been drowned, such a lengthened continuance of the flood was designed to manifest God's stern displeasure at sin and sinners. Think of Noah during such a crisis. We learn (Eze 14:14) that he was a man who lived and breathed habitually in an atmosphere of devotion; and having in the exercise of this high-toned faith made God his refuge, he did not fear "though the waters roared and were troubled; though the mountains shook with the swelling thereof" [Psa 46:3].

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days - The breaking up of the fountains of the great deep, and the raining forty days and nights, had raised the waters fifteen cubits above the highest mountains; after which forty days it appears to have continued at this height for one hundred and fifty days more. "So," says Dr. Lightfoot, "these two sums are to be reckoned distinct, and not the forty days included in the one hundred and fifty; so that when the one hundred and fifty days were ended, there were six months and ten days of the flood past." For an improvement of this awful judgment, see the conclusion of the following chapter, Gen 8:22 (note).

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 7:21-24

All the men, women, and children, that were in the world, excepting those in the ark, died. We may easily imagine what terror seized them. Our Saviour tells us, that till the very day that the flood came, they were eating and drinking, Lu 17:26, 27; they were deaf and blind to all Divine warnings. In this posture death surprised them. They were convinced of their folly when it was too late. We may suppose they tried…

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Genesis 7:24 in the original Hebrew

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וַיִּגְבְּר֥וּvai.yig.be.Ruand they increasedH1396
הַמַּ֖יִםha.Ma.yimthe watersH4325
עַל\־'al-onH5921
הָאָ֑רֶץha.'A.retzthe earthH776
חֲמִשִּׁ֥יםcha.mi.ShimfiftyH2572
וּמְאַ֖תu.me.'Atand one hundredH3967
יֽוֹם\׃Yomday[s]H3117

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Genesis 7:24

  • Genesis 8:3-4

    And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
8:3,4
compare with ver. 11 of this chapter.The breaking up of the fountains of the great deep, and the raining forty days and nights, had raised the waters fifteen cubits, or twenty-two feet and a half, above the highest mountain; after which forty days, it appears to have continued at this height one hundred and fifty days more.

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Context

  • Genesis 7:23

    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.

  • Genesis 7:24

    And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

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Genesis 7:24 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y prevalecieron las aguas sobre la tierra ciento y cincuenta días.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et les eaux se renforcèrent sur la terre, 150 jours.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und die Wasser hatten überhand auf der Erde 150 Tage.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Obtinueruntque aquæ terram centum quinquaginta diebus.