Holy Scripture
Genesis 7:22
A church father on this verse
“Then, a little further on in the same book [Genesis], one could just as easily have noticed the verse "Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died." This means that everything that lived on the earth perished in the flood. Thus we find that Holy Scripture is accustomed to use both phrases—…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
22And all things which have the breath of life, and whatever was on the dry land, died.
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20Fifteen cubits upward was the water raised, and it covered all the high mountains.
21And there died all flesh that moved upon the earth, of flying creatures and cattle, and of wild beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, and every man.
— Genesis 7:22 —
23And God blotted out every offspring which was upon the face of the earth, both man and beast, and reptiles, and birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth, and Noah was left alone, and those with him in the ark.
24And the water was raised over the earth a hundred and fifty days.