 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1829 - 544 pages
...surface. It is not easy to reconcile this hypothesis with those words of Moses : " The waters prevailed ; and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered. Fifteen cubits upward" above the highest " did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered." (Gen. vii. 19, 20.) We... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1830 - 304 pages
...creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. 19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth;...the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. 17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and... | |
 | William Hales - Bible - 1830 - 510 pages
...was drained of its waters; but the eruption of the subterraneous waters lasted for 150 days, until " the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the high hills, that were under the whole heavens, were covered; fifteen cubits upwards [above the highest] did the waters pre* This might have... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodist Church - 1830 - 568 pages
...surface. It is not easy to reconcile this hypothesis with those words of Moses, " The waters prevailed ; and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits upward [above the highest] did the waters prevail ; and the mountains were covered," Gen. vii, 19-23. We have... | |
 | American Sunday-School Union - Bible - 1830 - 194 pages
...the ark went upou the face of the waters. HI And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon theearth;and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail ; and the mountains were covered. 21 And nil flesh... | |
 | Religion - 1830 - 580 pages
...language — the same with that of the Mosaic record: "The waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, all the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered." The testimonies of earth, therefore, to the truth revealed from heaven, are, as the Arabian patriarch... | |
 | John Murray - Archaeology - 1831 - 324 pages
...prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth ; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth...under the whole heaven were covered. Fifteen cubits upwards did the waters prevail ; and the mountains were covered. And alljlesh died that moved upon... | |
 | Charles George Perceval (hon.) - 1831 - 362 pages
...and the windows of heaven were opened, and the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth,...hills that were under the whole heaven were covered. And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every... | |
 | Jean André Luc - Creation - 1831 - 522 pages
...prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth. And the ark went upon the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth...hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered." This expression, " under the whole heaven," signifies only the whole horizon of the inhabited lands... | |
 | William Moore - Religion - 2003 - 129 pages
...And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth;...the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered." Gen. 7:17-20 Many scholars have attempted to devise excuses for the Bible, so determined they are that... | |
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And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth ; and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered. 
