Genesis 7

1 And YHWH says to Noah, “Come, you and all your house, into the Ark, for I have seen you [are] righteous before Me in this generation;

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.

2 you take seven pairs from all the clean beasts to yourself, a male and its female; and of the beasts which are not clean—two, a male and its female;

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;

3 also, seven pairs from [each] bird of the heavens, a male and a female, to keep alive seed on the face of all the earth;

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.

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

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.

5 And Noah does according to all that YHWH has commanded him.

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

6 And Noah [is] a son of six hundred years, and the flood of waters has been on the earth.

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

7 And Noah goes—and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him—into the Ark, out of the presence of the waters of the flood;

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

8 from the clean beast, and from the beast that [is] not clean, and from the bird, and of everything that is creeping on the ground,

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

9 they have come to Noah two by two into the Ark, a male and a female, as God has commanded Noah.

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

10 And it comes to pass, after seven days, that waters of the flood have been on the earth.

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

11 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all [the] fountains of the great deep have been broken up, and the network of the heavens has been opened,

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;

12 and the shower is on the earth [for] forty days and forty nights.

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

13 On this very same day Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the Ark—

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

14 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 bird after its kind (every bird, every wing).

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

15 And they come to Noah, into the Ark, two by two of all the flesh in which [is] a living spirit;

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

16 and they that are coming in, male and female of all flesh, have come in as God has commanded him, and YHWH closes [it] for him.

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

17 And the flood is on the earth [for] forty days, and the waters multiply and lift up the Ark, and it is raised up from off the earth;

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.

18 and the waters are mighty and multiply exceedingly on the earth; and the Ark goes on the face of the waters.

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

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

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

20 the waters prevailed from above the mountains, and cover [them] fifteen cubits;

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

21 and all flesh expires that is moving on the earth, among bird, and among livestock, and among beast, and among every teeming thing which is teeming on the earth, and all mankind;

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.

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

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

23 And all the substance that is on the face of the ground is wiped away—from man to beast, to creeping thing, and to bird of the heavens; indeed, they are wiped away from the earth, and only Noah is left, and those who [are] with him in the Ark;

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.

24 and the waters are mighty on the earth [for] one hundred and fifty days.

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

The Great Flood