Genesis 18:28

Peradventure [Suppose] there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for [lack of] five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy [it. ]

Genesis 18:24

Peradventure [Suppose] there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that [are] therein?

Genesis 18:23

And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

Genesis 7:23

And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained [alive,] and they that [were] with him in the ark.

Genesis 7:4

For yet [after 7 more days] seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy [blot out] from off the face of the earth.

Genesis 6:7

And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it [I am sorry] repenteth me that I have made them.


note:   It is curious that the Lord God did not want to destroy the creatures of the sea.