every living substance: The most incontestable evidence has been afforded of the universality of this fact. The moose deer, a native of America, has been found buried in Ireland; elephants, native of Asia and Africa, in the midst of England; crocodiles, natives of the Nile, in the heart of Germany; and shell fish, never known in any but the American seas, with the entire skeletons of whales, in the most inland counties of England. Genesis 7:21-22; Job 22:15-17; Isaiah 24:1-8; Matthew 24:37-39; Luke 17:26-27; 1 Peter 3:20; 2 Peter 2:5
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Genesis 7:23
Genesis 7:23
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