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;
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 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 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 fowl of the heavens seven pairs, a male and a female, to keep alive seed on the face of all the earth;
Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird from all over the earth to keep them alive.
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.'
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 And Noah doth according to all that Jehovah hath commanded him:
Noah did everything that Yahweh told 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 years old when the flood 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;
Before it started to rain, Noah and his wife and his sons went into the boat to escape from the flood water.
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,
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 they have come in unto Noah, unto the ark, a male and a female, as God hath commanded Noah.
males and females, came to Noah and then went into the boat, just as God told Noah that they would do.
10 And it cometh to pass, after the seventh of the days, that waters of the deluge have been on the earth.
Seven days later, it started to rain and a flood began to cover 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,
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 and the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights.
Rain fell on the earth constantly for 40 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;
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, 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 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 And they come in unto Noah, unto the ark, two by two of all the flesh in which [is] a living spirit;
Pairs of all animals came to Noah and entered the boat.
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.
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 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;
It rained for 40 days and nights, and the flood increased. It flooded until the water lifted the boat above the ground.
18 and the waters are mighty, and multiply exceedingly upon the earth; and the ark goeth on the face of the waters.
As he water rose higher and higher, the boat floated on the surface of the water.
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;
The water rose all over the earth until it covered all the mountains.
20 fifteen cubits upwards have the waters become mighty, and the mountains are covered;
Even the highest mountains were covered by more than (20 feet/6 meters) of water.
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;
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 in whose nostrils [is] breath of a living spirit — of all that [is] in the dry land — have died.
On the land, (everything that breathed/every living thing) 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;
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 and the waters are mighty on the earth a hundred and fifty days.
The flood remained like that on the earth for 150 days.
The Great Flood
