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 him: Go in thou and all thy house into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation.

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 all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and the 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;

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.

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 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.

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

And Noe did all things which the Lord had commanded him.

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

And he was six hundred years old, when the waters of the flood overflowed 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 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.

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,

And of beasts clean and unclean, and of fowls, and of every thing that moveth upon the earth,

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

Two and two went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as the Lord had commanded Noe.

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

And after the seven days were passed, the waters of the flood overflowed 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 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:

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

And the rain fell upon the earth 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—

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:

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).

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,

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

Went in to Noe into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein was 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.

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.

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 the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth.

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

For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled all on the face of the earth: and the ark was carried upon 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 prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.

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

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

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

And all things wherein there is the breath of life on the earth, died.

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;

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.

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

And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.

The Great Flood