Genesis 7
1 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.
And the LORD said to Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark: for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
2 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.
Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that [are] not clean by two, the male and his female.
3 In addition take seven pairs, male and female, of all the birds, so their different kinds will survive throughout the earth.
Of fowls of the air also by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth.
4 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.”
For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from the face of the earth.
5 Noah did exactly what the Lord ordered him to do.
And Noah did according to all that the LORD commanded him.
6 Noah was 600 when the flood waters covered the earth.
And Noah [was] six hundred years old when the flood of waters was on the earth.
7 Noah went into the ark, taking with him his wife and his sons and their wives, because of the flood.
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 Clean and unclean animals, birds, and creatures that run along the ground,
Of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are] not clean, and of fowls, and of every animal that creepeth upon the earth;
9 went into the ark with Noah. They came in pairs, male and female, just as God had told Noah.
There went in two and two to Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 After seven days the floodwaters swept over the earth.
And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 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.
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 Rain continue to fall on the earth for forty days and nights.
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 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.
In the 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 They had with them every kind of wild animals, livestock, creatures that run along the ground, and birds—everything with wings.
They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping animal that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
15 They all came into the ark with Noah in pairs—every living thing that breathes.
And they went in to Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, in which [is] the breath of life.
16 A male and a female of every creature entered, as God had told Noah. Then the Lord shut the door behind him.
And they that entered, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
17 The flood increased for forty days, lifting the ark so that it floated up from the earth.
And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted above the earth.
18 The floodwaters surged and grew deeper and deeper over the earth, but the ark floated along on the surface.
And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth: and the ark moved upon the face of the waters.
19 Finally the water grew so deep that even the highest mountains were covered—all that could be seen was sky.
And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills that [were] under the whole heaven were covered.
20 The water rose so much that it was higher than the mountains by fifteen cubits.
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail: and the mountains were covered.
21 Everything living on earth died—the birds, livestock, wild animals, all creatures that run along the ground, and all the people.
And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping animal that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
22 Everything on land that breathed, died.
All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of all that [was] on the dry [land], died.
23 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.
And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping animals, and the fowl of heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth; and Noah only remained [alive], and they that [were] with him in the ark.
24 The earth remained flooded for 150 days.
And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
The Great Flood
