Genesis 7

1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I 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 every clean beast thou shalt take to thee seven and seven, the male and his female; and of the beasts that are not clean two, the male and his 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 of the fowl also of the air, seven and seven, male and female: to keep seed alive upon 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 yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy 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 did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.

Noah did everything that Yahweh told him to do.

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

Noah was 600 years old when the flood covered the earth.

7 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.

Before it started to rain, Noah and his wife and his sons went into the boat to escape from the flood water.

8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth 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 there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God 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 came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were 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 were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, 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 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Rain fell on the earth constantly for 40 days and nights.

13 In the selfsame day entered 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;

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 beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird of every sort.

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 went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.

Pairs of all animals came to Noah and entered the boat.

16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.

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 flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up 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 And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon 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 prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered.

The water rose all over the earth until it covered all the mountains.

20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

Even the highest mountains were covered by more than (20 feet/6 meters) of water.

21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both fowl, and cattle, and beast, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

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 was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

On the land, (everything that breathed/every living thing) died.

23 And every living thing was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping thing, and fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only was left, and they that were 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 prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

The flood remained like that on the earth for 150 days.

The Great Flood