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 Yahweh said to Noah, Enter thou and all thy house, into the ark, —for, thee, 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;

Of all the clean beasts, shalt thou take to thee by sevens, a male and his female, —and, of the beasts that are not clean, shall be two a 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.

Also of the bird of the heavens, by sevens, male and female, —to keep alive a seed on the face of 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 in seven days more, I, am sending rain on the earth, forty days and forty nights, —so will I wipe out all the living things which I have made, from off the face of the ground.

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

And Noah did, —according to all that Yahweh commanded him.

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

Now, Noah, was six hundred years old, —when, the flood, came, even waters on the earth.

7 And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

So Noah entered, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him into the ark, —from before the waters of the flood,

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

Of the beasts that were clean, and of the beasts that were not clean, —and of the birds, and everything that creepeth on the ground,

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

two and two, went they in unto Noah, into the ark male and female, —as God commanded Noah.

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

And it came to pass, in the seven days, —that the waters of the flood, came on 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, the year of the life of Noah. in the second month on the seventeenth day of the month on this day, were burst open all the fountains of the great roaring deep, and the windows of the heavens, were set open.

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

(And it came to pass that the heavy rain was on 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 this selfsame day, entered Noah, and Shem and Ham and Japheth. Noah’s sons, —and Noah’s wife, and his sons’ three wives with them into the ark:

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

they, and all the wild-beasts after their kind and all the tame-beasts after their kind, and all the creeping things that creep on the earth after their kind, —and all the birds after their kind, every bird of every wing.

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

So they entered in unto Noah, into the ark, —two and two of all flesh, wherein was the spirit 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, male and female of all flesh, entered, as God commanded him, —and Yahweh shut him in round about.

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

And it came to pass, that the flood was forty days on the earth, —and the waters increased and bare up the ark, and it was lifted high above 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 prevailed and increased greatly, on the earth, —and the ark went its way 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.

Yea the waters, prevailed very greatly, on the earth, —so that all the high mountains became covered, that were under all the heavens:

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

fifteen cubits upwards, prevailed the waters, so that the mountains became 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 ceased to breathe that moved on the earth, of birds and of tame-beasts and of wild-beasts, and of all the swarming things that swarm on the earth, —and all mankind.

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

All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life of all that were on the dry ground 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.

Thus was wiped out all that existed on the face of the ground, from man unto beast unto creeping thing, and unto the bird of the heavens, thus were they wiped out from the earth, —so that there was left—only Noah and they that were with him in the ark.

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

Thus prevailed the waters on the earth, —a hundred and fifty days.

The Great Flood