“And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.”
Genesis 7:23
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- Noah's Flood: Who Shut the Door of the Ark? (Genesis 7)
What does wipe mean here?
Wipe is machah (H4229): to erase or blot out, the word for scrubbing writing off a page. The same word returns when the flood is done: "they were blotted out from the earth" (Genesis 7:23). In Genesis 1 God filled the earth with living creatures; here the Maker erases what He made.
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