Genesis 7
1 Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.
2 You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;
Of every clean beast you will take seven males and seven females, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, the male and his female;
3 and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.
And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.
4 For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth.
5 And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
And Noah did everything which the Lord said he was to do.
6 Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.
7 And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.
8 The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth,
9 came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said.
10 And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.
And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;
12 And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
13 On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—
On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark;
14 they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.
And with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every sort of thing which goes on the earth, and every sort of bird.
15 They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.
They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.
16 And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
Male and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and the ark was shut by the Lord.
17 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.
18 So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
And the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters.
19 Finally, the waters completely inundated the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.
And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered.
20 The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.
The waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all the mountains were covered.
21 And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.
And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man.
22 Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end.
23 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.
Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.
And the waters were over the earth a hundred and fifty days.
The Great Flood
