You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
- BSB You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.
- ESV You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.
- NKJV You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters stood above the mountains.
- NASB You covered it with the deep sea as with a garment; The waters were standing above the mountains.
- NLT You clothed the earth with floods of water, water that covered even the mountains.
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- Gen 7:19The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.
- 2 Pet 3:5For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;
- Gen 1:2–10The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
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