Genesis 7
1 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.
The Lord told Noah, “Go into the ark with all your family. I have seen how you are a man of integrity, living a moral life among the people of this generation.
2 Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and the female.
Take with you seven pairs, male and female, of every kind of clean animal, and one pair, male and female, of every kind of unclean animal.
3 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.
In addition take seven pairs, male and female, of all the birds, so their different kinds will survive throughout the earth.
4 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.
In seven days I'm going to make it rain for forty days and nights. I'm going to wipe out from the surface of the earth all the living creatures I made.”
5 And Noe did all things which the Lord had commanded him.
Noah did exactly what the Lord ordered him to do.
6 And he was six hundred years old, when the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.
Noah was 600 when the flood waters covered the earth.
7 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.
Noah went into the ark, taking with him his wife and his sons and their wives, because of the flood.
8 And of beasts clean and unclean, and of fowls, and of every thing that moveth upon the earth,
Clean and unclean animals, birds, and creatures that run along the ground,
9 Two and two went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as the Lord had commanded Noe.
went into the ark with Noah. They came in pairs, male and female, just as God had told Noah.
10 And after the seven days were passed, the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.
After seven days the floodwaters swept over the earth.
11 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:
Noah was 600 when on the seventeenth day of the second month all the subterranean waters burst through the earth, and heavy rain poured down from the sky.
12 And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Rain continue to fall on the earth for forty days and nights.
13 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:
That was the actual day when Noah, his wife, and their sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth together with their three wives went into the ark.
14 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,
They had with them every kind of wild animals, livestock, creatures that run along the ground, and birds—everything with wings.
15 Went in to Noe into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein was the breath of life.
They all came into the ark with Noah in pairs—every living thing that breathes.
16 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.
A male and a female of every creature entered, as God had told Noah. Then the Lord shut the door behind him.
17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth.
The flood increased for forty days, lifting the ark so that it floated up from the earth.
18 For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled all on the face of the earth: and the ark was carried upon the waters.
The floodwaters surged and grew deeper and deeper over the earth, but the ark floated along on the surface.
19 And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.
Finally the water grew so deep that even the highest mountains were covered—all that could be seen was sky.
20 The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered.
The water rose so much that it was higher than the mountains by fifteen cubits.
21 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.
Everything living on earth died—the birds, livestock, wild animals, all creatures that run along the ground, and all the people.
22 And all things wherein there is the breath of life on the earth, died.
Everything on land that breathed, died.
23 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.
The Lord wiped out all life on earth—people, livestock, creatures that run along the ground, and birds. All were killed. The only ones left were Noah and those with him on the ark.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
The earth remained flooded for 150 days.
The Great Flood
