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 God said to Noe, Enter you and all your family into the ark, for you have I seen 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.
And of the clean cattle take in to you sevens, male and female, and of the unclean cattle pairs male and female.
3 Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird from all over the earth to keep them alive.
And of clean flying creatures of the sky sevens, male and female, and of all unclean flying creatures pairs, male and female, to maintain seed on 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 [having passed] I bring rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will blot out every offspring which I have made from the face of all the earth.
5 Noah did everything that Yahweh told him to do.
And Noe [did] all things whatever the Lord God commanded him.
6 Noah was 600 years old when the flood covered the earth.
And Noe was six hundred years old when the flood of water 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 then went in Noe and his sons and his wife, and his sons' wives with him into the ark, because of the water 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,
And of clean flying creatures and of unclean flying creatures, and of clean cattle and of unclean cattle, and of all things that creep upon the earth,
9 males and females, came to Noah and then went into the boat, just as God told Noah that they would do.
pairs went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noe.
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 water of the flood came 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 the life of Noe, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the abyss were broken up, and the flood-gates 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.
On that very day entered Noe, Sem, Cham, Japheth, the sons of Noe, and the wife of Noe, and the three wives of his sons with him 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 all the wild beasts after their kind, and all cattle after their kind, and every reptile moving itself on the earth after its kind, and every flying bird after its kind,
15 Pairs of all animals came to Noah and entered the boat.
went in to Noe into the ark, pairs, male and female 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 they that entered went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded Noe, and the Lord God shut the ark outside of him.
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 upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and the water abounded greatly and bore up the ark, and it was lifted on high from off the earth.
18 As he water rose higher and higher, the boat floated on the surface of the water.
And the water prevailed and abounded exceedingly upon the earth, and the ark was borne upon the water.
19 The water rose all over the earth until it covered all the mountains.
And the water prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and covered all the high mountains which were under heaven.
20 Even the highest mountains were covered by more than (20 feet/6 meters) of water.
Fifteen cubits upwards was the water raised, and it covered all the high mountains.
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 there died all flesh that moved upon the earth, of flying creatures and cattle, and of wild beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, and every man.
22 On the land, (everything that breathed/every living thing) died.
And all things which have the breath of life, and whatever 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 [God] blotted out every offspring which was upon the face of the earth, both man and beast, and reptiles, and birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth, and Noe was left alone, and those with him in the ark.
24 The flood remained like that on the earth for 150 days.
And the water was raised over the earth an hundred and fifty days.
The Great Flood
