Genesis 7

1 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.

And Jehovah said to Noah, Come, thou and all thy house into the ark, for I have seen thee righteous before me in this generation.

2 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.

Of every clean beast thou shall take to thee by sevens, the male and his female. And of the beasts that are not clean two, the male and his female.

3 Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird from all over the earth to keep them alive.

Also of the birds of the heavens by sevens, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

4 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.”

For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will destroy from off the face of the ground.

5 Noah did everything that Yahweh told him to do.

And Noah did according to all that Jehovah commanded him.

6 Noah was 600 years old when the flood covered the earth.

And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

7 Before it started to rain, Noah and his wife and his sons went into the boat to escape from the flood water.

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 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,

Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps upon the ground,

9 males and females, came to Noah and then went into the boat, just as God told Noah that they would do.

there went in two by two to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

10 Seven days later, it started to rain and a flood began to cover the earth.

And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

11 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.

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

12 Rain fell on the earth constantly for 40 days and nights.

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 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.

In the selfsame day Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ark,

14 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.

they, and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle according to their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every bird of every sort.

15 Pairs of all animals came to Noah and entered the boat.

And they went in to Noah into the ark, two by two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.

16 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.

And those that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him. And Jehovah shut him in.

17 It rained for 40 days and nights, and the flood increased. It flooded until the water lifted the boat above the ground.

And the flood was forty days upon the earth. And the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

18 As he water rose higher and higher, the boat floated on the surface of the water.

And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

19 The water rose all over the earth until it covered all the mountains.

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered,

20 Even the highest mountains were covered by more than (20 feet/6 meters) of water.

fifteen cubits upward. The waters prevailed, and the mountains were covered.

21 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.

And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, from birds, to cattle, to beasts, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, and every man.

22 On the land, (everything that breathed/every living thing) died.

All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

23 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.

And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, from man, to cattle, to creeping things, and birds of the heavens, and they were destroyed from the earth. And only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.

24 The flood remained like that on the earth for 150 days.

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

The Great Flood