Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Les eaux s'élevèrent de quinze coudées au-dessus des montagnes, qui furent couvertes.
KJV
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
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d not rise to the height of the higher heavens but only 15 cubits higher than the mountain summits ( Gn. 7:20 ). Therefore the higher heavens will not be cleansed by that fire. I answer that, The cleansing of the world will be for the purpose of removing from bodies the dispositi…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 174 (Migne)
invenitur, ubi in Veteri Testamento dicitur: Quindecim cubitis altior erat aqua super omnes montes (Gen. VII, 20) . Per cubitos, ut arbitramur, perfectio, per aquam sacra valet intelligi Scriptura, per montes justi quique et perfecti, eminentia virtutum sublimes et alti. Unde ide…
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