Genesis 7:17-22

17For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper, covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth.

18As the waters rose higher and higher above the ground, the boat floated safely on the surface.

19Finally, the water covered even the highest mountains on the earth,

20rising more than twenty-two feet above the highest peaks.

21All the living things on earth died—birds, domestic animals, wild animals, small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the people.

22Everything that breathed and lived on dry land died.