The prevalence of the waters. The forty days are now completed. At the end of this period, the ark had been afloat for a long time. It was drifted …

The waters increased ... — The swelling of the flood is described with great power in these verses. Every stage and detail relates to the …

And the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

You can see it begin to move until it is afloat.…

And the flood was forty days, etc. Moses strongly emphasizes this fact to show that the whole world was immersed in the waters. Moreover, …

And the flood was forty days upon the earth This is said with respect to what follows, and the meaning is, that when and …

The flood was increasing for forty days. The waters rose so high that the tops of the highest mountains were overflowed by more than twenty feet. T…