Genesis 7
1 Yahweh said to Noah, “Come, you and all your household, into the ark, for I have seen that you are 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 every clean animal you will bring with you seven males and seven females. From the animals that are not clean, of them bring two, the male and his mate.
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 birds of the sky, bring seven males and seven females, to preserve their offspring upon the surface 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 I will cause it to rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy from off the surface of the ground every living thing that I have made.”
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 Noah did all that Yahweh commanded him.
Noah did everything that Yahweh told him to do.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came upon the earth.
Noah was 600 years old when the flood covered the earth.
7 Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives went into the ark together because of 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 Clean animals and unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps upon 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 by two, male and female, came to Noah and went into the ark, just as God had commanded Noah.
males and females, came to Noah and then went into the boat, just as God told Noah that they would do.
10 It came about that after the seven days, the waters of the flood came upon the earth.
Seven days later, it started to rain and a flood began to cover the earth.
11 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 burst open, and the windows of heaven were opened.
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 The rain began and fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Rain fell on the earth constantly for 40 days and nights.
13 On that very same day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered 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 entered along with each wild animal according to its kind, and each sort of livestock according to its kind, and each creeping thing that creeps upon the earth according to its kind, and every sort of bird according to its kind, each kind of creature with wings.
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 Two of all flesh in which was the breath of life came to Noah and entered into the ark.
Pairs of all animals came to Noah and entered the boat.
16 The animals that went in were male and female of all flesh; they entered in just as God had commanded him. Then Yahweh shut the door after them.
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 Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted the ark and raised it 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 The waters completely covered over the earth, and the ark floated upon the surface of the water.
As he water rose higher and higher, the boat floated on the surface of the water.
19 The waters rose greatly on the earth so that all the high mountains that were under the entire sky were covered.
The water rose all over the earth until it covered all the mountains.
20 The waters rose fifteen cubits above the tops of the mountains.
Even the highest mountains were covered by more than (20 feet/6 meters) of water.
21 All living beings that moved upon the earth died—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the living creatures that lived in great numbers upon 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 living creatures who lived on the land, who breathed the breath of life through their noses, died.
On the land, (everything that breathed/every living thing) died.
23 So every living thing that was on the surface of the earth was wiped out, from mankind to the larger animals, to creeping things, and to birds of the sky. They were all destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those with him in the ark were left.
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 The waters stayed upon the earth for a hundred and fifty days.
The flood remained like that on the earth for 150 days.
The Great Flood
