Genesis 7

1 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.

And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy household into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

2 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;

Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee seven pairs of each, the male and his female; and of beasts that are not clean two, the male and his female.

3 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.

Also of the fowls of the heaven, seven pairs of each, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

4 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.

For after only seven days more, I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will blot out every living substance that I have made from off the face of the earth.

5 And Noah did everything which the Lord said he was to do.

And Noah did all just as the Lord had commanded him.

6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.

And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

7 And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.

And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth,

Of the clean beasts, and of the beasts that are not clean, and of the fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,

9 In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said.

One pair of each went in unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

10 And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.

And it came to pass, after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

11 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;

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this same day, were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

12 And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

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

13 On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark;

On that self-same day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

14 And with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every sort of thing which goes on the earth, and every sort of bird.

They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird, every thing that hath wings.

15 They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.

And they went in unto Noah into the ark, one pair of each, of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.

16 Male and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and the ark was shut by the Lord.

And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and then the Lord shut him in.

17 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.

And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

18 And the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters.

And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark floated along upon the face of the waters.

19 And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered.

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that are under the whole heavens were covered.

20 The waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all the mountains were covered.

Fifteen cubits above them did the waters prevail; and the mountains were [thus] covered.

21 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.

And all flesh perished that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man.

22 Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end.

All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that were on the dry land, died.

23 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.

And it swept off every living substance which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and fowls of the heaven; and they were swept from the earth; and Noah only was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.

24 And the waters were over the earth a hundred and fifty days.

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

The Great Flood