Genesis 7
1 And Yhwh said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous 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 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.
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 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the 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 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 off 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 Noah did according unto all that Yhwh commanded him.
Noah did exactly what the Lord ordered him to do.
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
Noah was 600 when the flood waters covered the earth.
7 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.
Noah went into the ark, taking with him his wife and his sons and their wives, because of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
Clean and unclean animals, birds, and creatures that run along the ground,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
went into the ark with Noah. They came in pairs, male and female, just as God had told Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
After seven days the floodwaters swept over the earth.
11 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.
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 was 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 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;
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 after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
They had with them every kind of wild animals, livestock, creatures that run along the ground, and birds—everything with wings.
15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is 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 Yhwh shut him in.
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 bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
The flood increased for forty days, lifting the ark so that it floated up from the earth.
18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of 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 exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were 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 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
The water rose so much that it was higher than the mountains by fifteen cubits.
21 And all flesh died 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:
Everything living on earth died—the birds, livestock, wild animals, all creatures that run along the ground, and all the people.
22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Everything on land that breathed, died.
23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, 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 an hundred and fifty days.
The earth remained flooded for 150 days.
The Great Flood
