Genesis 7

1 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.

And Jehovah said to Noah, Go into the ark, thou and all thy house; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

2 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.

Of all clean beasts thou shalt take to thee by sevens, a male and its female; but of the beasts that are not clean two, a male and its female.

3 In addition take seven pairs, male and female, of all the birds, so their different kinds will survive throughout the earth.

Also of the fowl of the heavens by sevens, male and female; to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth.

4 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.”

For in yet seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living being which I have made will I destroy from the ground.

5 Noah did exactly what the Lord ordered him to do.

And Noah did according to all that Jehovah had commanded him.

6 Noah was 600 when the flood waters covered the earth.

And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was on the earth.

7 Noah went into the ark, taking with him his wife and his sons and their wives, because of the flood.

And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

8 Clean and unclean animals, birds, and creatures that run along the ground,

Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowl, and of everything that creeps on the ground,

9 went into the ark with Noah. They came in pairs, male and female, just as God had told Noah.

there came two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

10 After seven days the floodwaters swept over the earth.

And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth.

11 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.

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

12 Rain continue to fall on the earth for forty days and nights.

And the pour of rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 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.

On the same day went Noah, and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

14 They had with them every kind of wild animals, livestock, creatures that run along the ground, and birds—everything with wings.

they, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and all fowl after its kind — every bird of every wing.

15 They all came into the ark with Noah in pairs—every living thing that breathes.

And they went to Noah, into the ark, two and two of all flesh, in which was the breath of life.

16 A male and a female of every creature entered, as God had told Noah. Then the Lord shut the door behind him.

And they that came, came male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him. And Jehovah shut him in.

17 The flood increased for forty days, lifting the ark so that it floated up from the earth.

And the flood was forty days on the earth. And the waters increased, and bore up the ark; and it was lifted up above the earth.

18 The floodwaters surged and grew deeper and deeper over the earth, but the ark floated along on the surface.

And the waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth; and the ark went on the face of the waters.

19 Finally the water grew so deep that even the highest mountains were covered—all that could be seen was sky.

And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth; and all the high mountains that are under all the heavens were covered.

20 The water rose so much that it was higher than the mountains by fifteen cubits.

Fifteen cubits upward the waters prevailed; and the mountains were covered.

21 Everything living on earth died—the birds, livestock, wild animals, all creatures that run along the ground, and all the people.

And all flesh that moved on the earth expired, fowl as well as cattle, and beasts, and all crawling things which crawl on the earth, and all mankind:

22 Everything on land that breathed, died.

everything which had in its nostrils the breath of life, of all that was on the dry [land], died.

23 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.

And every living being was destroyed that was on the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and fowl of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth. And Noah alone remained, and what was with him in the ark.

24 The earth remained flooded for 150 days.

And the waters prevailed on the earth a hundred and fifty days.

The Great Flood