Genesis 7:22

22 so that all that had the breth of liffe in the nostrels of it thorow out all that was on drye lond dyed.

Genesis 7:22 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 7:22

All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life
Whether of fowls, beast, cattle, or creeping things:

of all that was in the dry land, died;
by which description fishes were excepted, since they breathe not, having no lungs, and are not on the dry land, where they cannot live, but in the waters. Some pretend it to be the opinion of some Jewish writers, that the fishes did die, the waters being made hot, and scalded them; but this fable I have not met with.

Genesis 7:22 In-Context

20 eve .xv. cubytes hye prevayled the waters so that the hylles were covered.

21 And all fleshe that moved on the erth bothe birdes catell and beastes perisshed with al that crepte on the erth and all men:

22 so that all that had the breth of liffe in the nostrels of it thorow out all that was on drye lond dyed.

23 Thus was destroyed all that was vppo the erth both man beastes wormes and foules of the ayre so that they were destroyed from the erth: save Noe was reserved only and they that were wyth hym in the arke.

24 And the waters prevayled vppon the erth an hundred and fyftye dayes.