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 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 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 you will take seven males and seven females, and of the beasts which 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.

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 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 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 Noah did everything that Yahweh told him to do.

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

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

And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all 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, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.

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

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

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

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

And after the seven days, the waters came over all 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, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;

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

And rain came down on the earth for 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.

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 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.

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

They went with Noah into the ark, two and 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all 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 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 On the land, (everything that breathed/every living thing) died.

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

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.

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

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

The Great Flood