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.
Then Yahweh said to Noah, “I have seen that out of everyone who is now living, you alone always act righteously. So you and all your family go into the boat.
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;
Take with you seven pairs of every kind of animal that I have said I will accept for sacrifices. Take seven males and seven females. Also take a male and a female from every kind of animal that I have said that I will not accept for sacrifices.
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 take seven pairs of every kind of bird from all over the earth to keep them alive.
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.”
Do this because seven days from now I will cause rain to fall on the earth. It will rain constantly for 40 days and nights. By doing that, I will destroy everything that I have made that is on the earth.”
5 And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
Noah did everything that Yahweh told him to do.
6 Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
Noah was 600 years old when the flood covered the earth.
7 And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
Before it started to rain, Noah and his wife and his sons went into the boat to escape from the flood water.
8 The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
Pairs of animals, those that God said that he would accept for sacrifices and those that he would not accept for sacrifices, and pairs of birds and pairs of all the kinds of creatures that move close to the ground,
9 came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
males and females, came to Noah and then went into the boat, just as God told Noah that they would do.
10 And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.
Seven days later, it started to rain and a flood began to cover 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.
When Noah was 600 years old, (on the 17th day of the second month [of that year/late in October]), all the water that is under the surface of the earth burst forth, and it began to rain so hard that it was as though a dam [MET] in the sky burst open.
12 And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Rain fell on the earth constantly for 40 days and 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 day that it started to rain, Noah went into the boat with his wife, and his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth and their wives.
14 they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.
They had already put in the boat some of every kind of wild animal and every kind of livestock and every kind of bird and every other creature that has wings.
15 They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.
Pairs of all animals came to Noah and entered the boat.
16 And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
There was a male and a female of each animal that came to Noah, just as God had said they would do. After they were all in the boat, God shut the door.
17 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
It rained for 40 days and nights, and the flood increased. It flooded until the water lifted the boat above the ground.
18 So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
As he water rose higher and higher, the boat floated on the surface of the water.
19 Finally, the waters completely inundated the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.
The water rose all over the earth until it covered all the mountains.
20 The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.
Even the highest mountains were covered by more than (20 feet/6 meters) of water.
21 And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.
As a result, every living creature on the surface of the earth died. That included birds and livestock and wild animals and other creatures that scurry across the ground, and all the people.
22 Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
On the land, (everything that breathed/every living thing) 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.
God destroyed every living creature: People and animals and creatures that scurry across the ground and birds. Only Noah and those who were in the boat with him remained alive.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.
The flood remained like that on the earth for 150 days.
The Great Flood
