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 God said to Noe, Enter you and all your family into the ark, for you have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

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;

And of the clean cattle take in to you sevens, male and female, and of the unclean cattle pairs male and 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 clean flying creatures of the sky sevens, male and female, and of all unclean flying creatures pairs, male and female, to maintain seed on all 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 yet seven days [having passed] I bring rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will blot out every offspring which I have made from the face of all the earth.

5 And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.

And Noe [did] all things whatever the Lord God commanded him.

6 Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.

And Noe was six hundred years old when the flood of water was upon 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 then went in Noe and his sons and his wife, and his sons' wives with him into the ark, because of the water of the flood.

8 The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground

And of clean flying creatures and of unclean flying creatures, and of clean cattle and of unclean cattle, and of all things that creep upon the earth,

9 came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

pairs went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noe.

10 And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.

And it came to pass after the seven days that the water of the flood came upon 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 the life of Noe, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the abyss were broken up, and the flood-gates of heaven were opened.

12 And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

And the rain was upon the earth 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 that very day entered Noe, Sem, Cham, Japheth, the sons of Noe, and the wife of Noe, and the three wives of his sons with him into the ark.

14 they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.

And all the wild beasts after their kind, and all cattle after their kind, and every reptile moving itself on the earth after its kind, and every flying bird after its kind,

15 They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.

went in to Noe into the ark, pairs, male and female 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.

And they that entered went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded Noe, and the Lord God shut the ark outside of him.

17 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.

And the flood was upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and the water abounded greatly and bore up the ark, and it was lifted on high from off 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 water prevailed and abounded exceedingly upon the earth, and the ark was borne upon the water.

19 Finally, the waters completely inundated the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.

And the water prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and covered all the high mountains which were under heaven.

20 The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.

Fifteen cubits upwards was the water raised, and it covered all the high mountains.

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 there died all flesh that moved upon the earth, of flying creatures and cattle, and of wild beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, and every man.

22 Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

And all things which have the breath of life, and whatever was on the dry land, died.

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.

And [God] blotted out every offspring which was upon the face of the earth, both man and beast, and reptiles, and birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth, and Noe was left alone, and those with him in the ark.

24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.

And the water was raised over the earth an hundred and fifty days.

The Great Flood