Gen 7:17-24 | TNotes | STEP | 7:17 floodwaters grew deeper (literally waters multiplied ): The same word used for the proliferation of humans and animals during creation (see 1:22 , 28 ) is now used ironically of the water that would annihilate them. • covering the ground: The Hebrew word translated “ground” or “earth” is mentioned eight times in eight verses (7:17-24 ). The earth is the domain that humankind had polluted and that was now the object of a cleansing deluge.

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‏ Genesis 7:17-24

7:17 ^a floodwaters grew deeper (literally waters multiplied): The same word used for the proliferation of humans and animals during creation (see 1:22 ^b, 28 ^c) is now used ironically of the water that would annihilate them.

• covering the ground: The Hebrew word translated “ground” or “earth” is mentioned eight times in eight verses (7:17-24 ^d). The earth is the domain that humankind had polluted and that was now the object of a cleansing deluge.
7:22 ^e Everything that ... lived: See study note on 6:17.