Genesis 7
1 And Jehovah saith to Noah, 'Come in, thou and all thy house, unto the ark, for thee I have seen righteous before Me in this generation;
The Lord told Noah, “Go into the ark with all your family. I have seen how you are a man of integrity, living a moral life among the people of this generation.
2 of all the clean beasts thou dost take to thee seven pairs, a male and its female; and of the beasts which are not clean two, a male and its female;
Take with you seven pairs, male and female, of every kind of clean animal, and one pair, male and female, of every kind of unclean animal.
3 also, of fowl of the heavens seven pairs, a male and a female, to keep alive seed on the face of all the earth;
In addition take seven pairs, male and female, of all the birds, so their different kinds will survive throughout the earth.
4 for after other seven days I am sending rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and have wiped away all the substance that I have made from off the face of the ground.'
In seven days I'm going to make it rain for forty days and nights. I'm going to wipe out from the surface of the earth all the living creatures I made.”
5 And Noah doth according to all that Jehovah hath commanded him:
Noah did exactly what the Lord ordered him to do.
6 and Noah [is] a son of six hundred years, and the deluge of waters hath been upon the earth.
Noah was 600 when the flood waters covered the earth.
7 And Noah goeth in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, unto the ark, from the presence of the waters of the deluge;
Noah went into the ark, taking with him his wife and his sons and their wives, because of the flood.
8 of the clean beasts and of the beasts that [are] not clean, and of the fowl, and of every thing that is creeping upon the ground,
Clean and unclean animals, birds, and creatures that run along the ground,
9 two by two they have come in unto Noah, unto the ark, a male and a female, as God hath commanded Noah.
went into the ark with Noah. They came in pairs, male and female, just as God had told Noah.
10 And it cometh to pass, after the seventh of the days, that waters of the deluge have been on the earth.
After seven days the floodwaters swept over the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened,
Noah was 600 when on the seventeenth day of the second month all the subterranean waters burst through the earth, and heavy rain poured down from the sky.
12 and the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights.
Rain continue to fall on the earth for forty days and nights.
13 In this self-same day went in Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, unto the ark;
That was the actual day when Noah, his wife, and their sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth together with their three wives went into the ark.
14 they, and every living creature after its kind, and every beast after its kind, and every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird — every wing.
They had with them every kind of wild animals, livestock, creatures that run along the ground, and birds—everything with wings.
15 And they come in unto Noah, unto the ark, two by two of all the flesh in which [is] a living spirit;
They all came into the ark with Noah in pairs—every living thing that breathes.
16 and they that are coming in, male and female of all flesh, have come in as God hath commanded him, and Jehovah doth close [it] for him.
A male and a female of every creature entered, as God had told Noah. Then the Lord shut the door behind him.
17 And the deluge is forty days on the earth, and the waters multiply, and lift up the ark, and it is raised up from off the earth;
The flood increased for forty days, lifting the ark so that it floated up from the earth.
18 and the waters are mighty, and multiply exceedingly upon the earth; and the ark goeth on the face of the waters.
The floodwaters surged and grew deeper and deeper over the earth, but the ark floated along on the surface.
19 And the waters have been very very mighty on the earth, and covered are all the high mountains which [are] under the whole heavens;
Finally the water grew so deep that even the highest mountains were covered—all that could be seen was sky.
20 fifteen cubits upwards have the waters become mighty, and the mountains are covered;
The water rose so much that it was higher than the mountains by fifteen cubits.
21 and expire doth all flesh that is moving on the earth, among fowl, and among cattle, and among beasts, and among all the teeming things which are teeming on the earth, and all mankind;
Everything living on earth died—the birds, livestock, wild animals, all creatures that run along the ground, and all the people.
22 all in whose nostrils [is] breath of a living spirit — of all that [is] in the dry land — have died.
Everything on land that breathed, died.
23 And wiped away is all the substance that is on the face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto fowl of the heavens; yea, they are wiped away from the earth, and only Noah is left, and those who [are] with him in the ark;
The Lord wiped out all life on earth—people, livestock, creatures that run along the ground, and birds. All were killed. The only ones left were Noah and those with him on the ark.
24 and the waters are mighty on the earth a hundred and fifty days.
The earth remained flooded for 150 days.
The Great Flood
