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What was the biblical flood?

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11y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

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The biblical flood was a mythical flood that covered the whole world to a depth of several kilometres (miles), described in Genesis chapters 6 to 8. Every person on earth was killed, except for the family of Noah, who built an ark to float above the waters.

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