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 him: “Enter the ark, you and all your house. For I have seen you to be just in my sight, within 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.
From all the clean animals, take seven and seven, the male and the female. Yet truly, from animals that are unclean, take two and two, the male and the female.
3 Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird from all over the earth to keep them alive.
But also from the birds of the air, take seven and seven, the male and the female, so that offspring may be saved upon the face of the whole 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 from that point, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. And I will wipe away every substance that I have made, from the surface of the earth.”
5 Noah did everything that Yahweh told him to do.
Therefore, Noah did all things just as the Lord had commanded him.
6 Noah was 600 years old when the flood covered the earth.
And he was six hundred years old when the waters of the great flood inundated 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 entered into the ark, and his sons, his wife, and the wives of his sons with him, because of the waters of the great 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 from the animals both clean and unclean, and from the birds, and from everything that moves 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.
two by two they were brought into the ark to Noah, male and female, just as the Lord had instructed Noah.
10 Seven days later, it started to rain and a flood began to cover the earth.
And when seven days had passed, the waters of the great flood inundated 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 Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great abyss were released, and the floodgates of heaven were opened.
12 Rain fell on the earth constantly for 40 days and nights.
And rain came upon 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 very same day, Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered 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 animal according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and everything that moves upon the earth in their kind, and every flying thing according to its kind, all the birds and all that can fly,
15 Pairs of all animals came to Noah and entered the boat.
entered the ark to Noah, two by two out of all that is flesh, in which there was 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 entered went in male and female, from all that is flesh, just as God had instructed him. And then the Lord closed him in from the outside.
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 great flood occurred for forty days upon the earth. And the waters were increased, and they lifted the ark high above the land.
18 As he water rose higher and higher, the boat floated on the surface of the water.
For they overflowed greatly, and they filled everything on the surface of the earth. And then the ark was carried across the waters.
19 The water rose all over the earth until it covered all the mountains.
And the waters prevailed beyond measure across the earth. And all the lofty mountains under the whole heaven were covered.
20 Even the highest mountains were covered by more than (20 feet/6 meters) of water.
The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it 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 was consumed which moved upon the earth: flying things, animals, wild beasts, and all moving things that crawl upon the ground. And all men,
22 On the land, (everything that breathed/every living thing) died.
and everything in which there is the breath of life on earth, 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 he wiped away all substance that was upon the earth, from man to animal, the crawling things just as much as the flying things of the air. And they were wiped away from the earth. But only Noah remained, and those who were with him in the ark.
24 The flood remained like that on the earth for 150 days.
And the waters possessed the earth for one hundred and fifty days.
The Great Flood
