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Genesis 7:17–24

Genesis 7:17–245 matched frames

Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.

A 17 the flood was forty days upon the earth
- B 17 the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth
  - A' 18 the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth
  - B' 18 the ark went upon the face of the waters
    - A'' 19-20 the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; all the high hills...were covered
      - B 21 all flesh died that moved upon the earth
        C i. 21 fowl
        C ii. 21 cattle, beast, every creeping thing
        C iii. 21 every man
        D 22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land
        E 22 died
        E' 23 destroyed
        D' 23 every living substance which was upon the face of the ground
        C' iii. 23 man
        C' ii. 23 cattle, creeping things
        C' i. 23 fowl of the heaven
      - B' 23 destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive
    - A''' 24 the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days