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 him: Go in thou and all thy house into the ark: for thee I have seen just 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;

Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and the 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.

But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and the female. Of the fowls also of the air seven and seven, the male and the female: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole 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 a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.

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

And Noe did all things which the Lord had commanded him.

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

And he was six hundred years old, when the waters of the flood overflowed 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 Noe went in and his sons, his wife and the wives of his sons with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

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

And of beasts clean and unclean, and of fowls, and of every thing that moveth upon the earth,

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

Two and two went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as the Lord had commanded Noe.

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

And after the seven days were passed, the waters of the flood overflowed 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, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep 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 fell 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—

In the selfsame day Noe, and Sem, and Cham, and Japheth his sons: his wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark:

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

They and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and every thing that moveth upon the earth according to its kind, and every fowl according to its kind, all birds, and all that fly,

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, two and two of all flesh, wherein was 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 went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in on the outside.

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 forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from 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.

For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled all on the face of the earth: and the ark was carried upon 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 prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.

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

The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it 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 all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth: and all men.

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

And all things wherein there is the breath of life on the earth, 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 he destroyed all the substance that was upon the earth, from man even to beast, and the creeping things and fowls of the air: and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noe only remained, and they that were with him in the ark.

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

And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.

The Great Flood