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The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.
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The Significance of 15 Cubits
Commentators suggest the 'fifteen cubits' (about 22 feet) likely refers to the draft of the ark. This detail isn't random; it signifies that the water was deep enough to carry the ark safely over the highest submerged mountains in its path, ensuring it wouldn't get stuck before its final resting place.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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 …
19th Century
Anglican
Fifteen cubits upward. — This apparently was the draft of the ark, computed after it had settled in the region of Ararat. Fifteen cubits w…
Baptist
This is the counterpart of what will follow the preaching of the gospel: those who are in Christ shall live, shall rise, and reign with him forever…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Fifteen cubits upwards did the waters prevail Either to such an height above the earth, upwards from that, or from t…
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…
