Genesis 7
1 And Yahweh said to Noah, Enter thou and all thy house, into the ark, —for, thee, have I seen righteous before me, in this generation.
Then Yahweh said to Noah, “I have seen that out of everyone who is now living, you alone always act righteously. So you and all your family go into the boat.
2 Of all the clean beasts, shalt thou take to thee by sevens, a male and his female, —and, of the beasts that are not clean, shall be two a male and his female.
Take with you seven pairs of every kind of animal that I have said I will accept for sacrifices. Take seven males and seven females. Also take a male and a female from every kind of animal that I have said that I will not accept for sacrifices.
3 Also of the bird of the heavens, by sevens, male and female, —to keep alive a seed on the face of all the earth.
Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird from all over the earth to keep them alive.
4 For in seven days more, I, am sending rain on the earth, forty days and forty nights, —so will I wipe out all the living things which I have made, from off the face of the ground.
Do this because seven days from now I will cause rain to fall on the earth. It will rain constantly for 40 days and nights. By doing that, I will destroy everything that I have made that is on the earth.”
5 And Noah did, —according to all that Yahweh commanded him.
Noah did everything that Yahweh told him to do.
6 Now, Noah, was six hundred years old, —when, the flood, came, even waters on the earth.
Noah was 600 years old when the flood covered the earth.
7 So Noah entered, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him into the ark, —from before the waters of the flood,
Before it started to rain, Noah and his wife and his sons went into the boat to escape from the flood water.
8 Of the beasts that were clean, and of the beasts that were not clean, —and of the birds, and everything that creepeth on the ground,
Pairs of animals, those that God said that he would accept for sacrifices and those that he would not accept for sacrifices, and pairs of birds and pairs of all the kinds of creatures that move close to the ground,
9 two and two, went they in unto Noah, into the ark male and female, —as God commanded Noah.
males and females, came to Noah and then went into the boat, just as God told Noah that they would do.
10 And it came to pass, in the seven days, —that the waters of the flood, came on the earth.
Seven days later, it started to rain and a flood began to cover the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year, the year of the life of Noah. in the second month on the seventeenth day of the month on this day, were burst open all the fountains of the great roaring deep, and the windows of the heavens, were set open.
When Noah was 600 years old, (on the 17th day of the second month [of that year/late in October]), all the water that is under the surface of the earth burst forth, and it began to rain so hard that it was as though a dam [MET] in the sky burst open.
12 (And it came to pass that the heavy rain was on the earth, —forty days and forty nights.)
Rain fell on the earth constantly for 40 days and nights.
13 On this selfsame day, entered Noah, and Shem and Ham and Japheth. Noah’s sons, —and Noah’s wife, and his sons’ three wives with them into the ark:
On the day that it started to rain, Noah went into the boat with his wife, and his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth and their wives.
14 they, and all the wild-beasts after their kind and all the tame-beasts after their kind, and all the creeping things that creep on the earth after their kind, —and all the birds after their kind, every bird of every wing.
They had already put in the boat some of every kind of wild animal and every kind of livestock and every kind of bird and every other creature that has wings.
15 So they entered in unto Noah, into the ark, —two and two of all flesh, wherein was the spirit of life.
Pairs of all animals came to Noah and entered the boat.
16 And, they that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered, as God commanded him, —and Yahweh shut him in round about.
There was a male and a female of each animal that came to Noah, just as God had said they would do. After they were all in the boat, God shut the door.
17 And it came to pass, that the flood was forty days on the earth, —and the waters increased and bare up the ark, and it was lifted high above the earth,
It rained for 40 days and nights, and the flood increased. It flooded until the water lifted the boat above the ground.
18 And the waters prevailed and increased greatly, on the earth, —and the ark went its way on the face of the waters.
As he water rose higher and higher, the boat floated on the surface of the water.
19 Yea the waters, prevailed very greatly, on the earth, —so that all the high mountains became covered, that were under all the heavens:
The water rose all over the earth until it covered all the mountains.
20 fifteen cubits upwards, prevailed the waters, so that the mountains became covered.
Even the highest mountains were covered by more than (20 feet/6 meters) of water.
21 And all flesh ceased to breathe that moved on the earth, of birds and of tame-beasts and of wild-beasts, and of all the swarming things that swarm on the earth, —and all mankind.
As a result, every living creature on the surface of the earth died. That included birds and livestock and wild animals and other creatures that scurry across the ground, and all the people.
22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life of all that were on the dry ground died.
On the land, (everything that breathed/every living thing) died.
23 Thus was wiped out all that existed on the face of the ground, from man unto beast unto creeping thing, and unto the bird of the heavens, thus were they wiped out from the earth, —so that there was left—only Noah and they that were with him in the ark.
God destroyed every living creature: People and animals and creatures that scurry across the ground and birds. Only Noah and those who were in the boat with him remained alive.
24 Thus prevailed the waters on the earth, —a hundred and fifty days.
The flood remained like that on the earth for 150 days.
The Great Flood
