Genesis 7

1 And the Lord said to him: “Enter the ark, you and all your house. For I have seen you to be just in my sight, within this generation.

And Jehovah saith to Noah, 'Come in, thou and all thy house, unto the ark, for thee I have seen righteous before Me in this generation;

2 From all the clean animals, take seven and seven, the male and the female. Yet truly, from animals that are unclean, take two and two, the male and the female.

of all the clean beasts thou dost take to thee seven pairs, a male and its female; and of the beasts which are not clean two, a male and its female;

3 But also from the birds of the air, take seven and seven, the male and the female, so that offspring may be saved upon the face of the whole earth.

also, of fowl of the heavens seven pairs, a male and a female, to keep alive seed on the face of all the earth;

4 For from that point, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. And I will wipe away every substance that I have made, from the surface of the earth.”

for after other seven days I am sending rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and have wiped away all the substance that I have made from off the face of the ground.'

5 Therefore, Noah did all things just as the Lord had commanded him.

And Noah doth according to all that Jehovah hath commanded him:

6 And he was six hundred years old when the waters of the great flood inundated the earth.

and Noah [is] a son of six hundred years, and the deluge of waters hath been upon the earth.

7 And Noah entered into the ark, and his sons, his wife, and the wives of his sons with him, because of the waters of the great flood.

And Noah goeth in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, unto the ark, from the presence of the waters of the deluge;

8 And from the animals both clean and unclean, and from the birds, and from everything that moves upon the earth,

of the clean beasts and of the beasts that [are] not clean, and of the fowl, and of every thing that is creeping upon the ground,

9 two by two they were brought into the ark to Noah, male and female, just as the Lord had instructed Noah.

two by two they have come in unto Noah, unto the ark, a male and a female, as God hath commanded Noah.

10 And when seven days had passed, the waters of the great flood inundated the earth.

And it cometh to pass, after the seventh of the days, that waters of the deluge have been on the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great abyss were released, and the floodgates of heaven were opened.

In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened,

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

and the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 On the very same day, Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark.

In this self-same day went in Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, unto the ark;

14 They and every animal according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and everything that moves upon the earth in their kind, and every flying thing according to its kind, all the birds and all that can fly,

they, and every living creature after its kind, and every beast after its kind, and every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird — every wing.

15 entered the ark to Noah, two by two out of all that is flesh, in which there was the breath of life.

And they come in unto Noah, unto the ark, two by two of all the flesh in which [is] a living spirit;

16 And those that entered went in male and female, from all that is flesh, just as God had instructed him. And then the Lord closed him in from the outside.

and they that are coming in, male and female of all flesh, have come in as God hath commanded him, and Jehovah doth close [it] for him.

17 And the great flood occurred for forty days upon the earth. And the waters were increased, and they lifted the ark high above the land.

And the deluge is forty days on the earth, and the waters multiply, and lift up the ark, and it is raised up from off the earth;

18 For they overflowed greatly, and they filled everything on the surface of the earth. And then the ark was carried across the waters.

and the waters are mighty, and multiply exceedingly upon the earth; and the ark goeth on the face of the waters.

19 And the waters prevailed beyond measure across the earth. And all the lofty mountains under the whole heaven were covered.

And the waters have been very very mighty on the earth, and covered are all the high mountains which [are] under the whole heavens;

20 The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered.

fifteen cubits upwards have the waters become mighty, and the mountains are covered;

21 And all flesh was consumed which moved upon the earth: flying things, animals, wild beasts, and all moving things that crawl upon the ground. And all men,

and expire doth all flesh that is moving on the earth, among fowl, and among cattle, and among beasts, and among all the teeming things which are teeming on the earth, and all mankind;

22 and everything in which there is the breath of life on earth, died.

all in whose nostrils [is] breath of a living spirit — of all that [is] in the dry land — have died.

23 And he wiped away all substance that was upon the earth, from man to animal, the crawling things just as much as the flying things of the air. And they were wiped away from the earth. But only Noah remained, and those who were with him in the ark.

And wiped away is all the substance that is on the face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto fowl of the heavens; yea, they are wiped away from the earth, and only Noah is left, and those who [are] with him in the ark;

24 And the waters possessed the earth for one hundred and fifty days.

and the waters are mighty on the earth a hundred and fifty days.

The Great Flood