Genesis 7

1 And Yahweh said to Noah, Enter thou and all thy house, into the ark, —for, thee, have I seen righteous before me, in this generation.

And the Lord said to him: Go in thou and all thy house into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation.

2 Of all the clean beasts, shalt thou take to thee by sevens, a male and his female, —and, of the beasts that are not clean, shall be two a male and his female.

Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and the female.

3 Also of the bird of the heavens, by sevens, male and female, —to keep alive a seed on the face of all the earth.

But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and the female. Of the fowls also of the air seven and seven, the male and the female: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth.

4 For in seven days more, I, am sending rain on the earth, forty days and forty nights, —so will I wipe out all the living things which I have made, from off the face of the ground.

For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.

5 And Noah did, —according to all that Yahweh commanded him.

And Noe did all things which the Lord had commanded him.

6 Now, Noah, was six hundred years old, —when, the flood, came, even waters on the earth.

And he was six hundred years old, when the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.

7 So Noah entered, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him into the ark, —from before the waters of the flood,

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

8 Of the beasts that were clean, and of the beasts that were not clean, —and of the birds, and everything that creepeth on the ground,

And of beasts clean and unclean, and of fowls, and of every thing that moveth upon the earth,

9 two and two, went they in unto Noah, into the ark male and female, —as God commanded Noah.

Two and two went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as the Lord had commanded Noe.

10 And it came to pass, in the seven days, —that the waters of the flood, came on the earth.

And after the seven days were passed, the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year, the year of the life of Noah. in the second month on the seventeenth day of the month on this day, were burst open all the fountains of the great roaring deep, and the windows of the heavens, were set open.

In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the flood gates of heaven were opened:

12 (And it came to pass that the heavy rain was on the earth, —forty days and forty nights.)

And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 On this selfsame day, entered Noah, and Shem and Ham and Japheth. Noah’s sons, —and Noah’s wife, and his sons’ three wives with them into the ark:

In the selfsame day Noe, and Sem, and Cham, and Japheth his sons: his wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark:

14 they, and all the wild-beasts after their kind and all the tame-beasts after their kind, and all the creeping things that creep on the earth after their kind, —and all the birds after their kind, every bird of every wing.

They and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and every thing that moveth upon the earth according to its kind, and every fowl according to its kind, all birds, and all that fly,

15 So they entered in unto Noah, into the ark, —two and two of all flesh, wherein was the spirit of life.

Went in to Noe into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein was the breath of life.

16 And, they that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered, as God commanded him, —and Yahweh shut him in round about.

And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in on the outside.

17 And it came to pass, that the flood was forty days on the earth, —and the waters increased and bare up the ark, and it was lifted high above the earth,

And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth.

18 And the waters prevailed and increased greatly, on the earth, —and the ark went its way on the face of the waters.

For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled all on the face of the earth: and the ark was carried upon the waters.

19 Yea the waters, prevailed very greatly, on the earth, —so that all the high mountains became covered, that were under all the heavens:

And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.

20 fifteen cubits upwards, prevailed the waters, so that the mountains became covered.

The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered.

21 And all flesh ceased to breathe that moved on the earth, of birds and of tame-beasts and of wild-beasts, and of all the swarming things that swarm on the earth, —and all mankind.

And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth: and all men.

22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life of all that were on the dry ground died.

And all things wherein there is the breath of life on the earth, died.

23 Thus was wiped out all that existed on the face of the ground, from man unto beast unto creeping thing, and unto the bird of the heavens, thus were they wiped out from the earth, —so that there was left—only Noah and they that were with him in the ark.

And he destroyed all the substance that was upon the earth, from man even to beast, and the creeping things and fowls of the air: and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noe only remained, and they that were with him in the ark.

24 Thus prevailed the waters on the earth, —a hundred and fifty days.

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

The Great Flood