Genesis 7

1 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.

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 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.

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 Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird from all over the earth to keep them alive.

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

4 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.”

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 everything that Yahweh told him to do.

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

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

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

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

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 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,

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

9 males and females, came to Noah and then went into the boat, just as God told Noah that they would do.

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

10 Seven days later, it started to rain and a flood began to cover the earth.

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

11 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.

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 fell on the earth constantly for 40 days and nights.

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

13 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.

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 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.

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

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

16 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.

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

17 It rained for 40 days and nights, and the flood increased. It flooded until the water lifted the boat above the ground.

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 As he water rose higher and higher, the boat floated on the surface of the water.

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

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

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

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

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

21 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.

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

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

23 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.

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 flood remained like that on the earth for 150 days.

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

The Great Flood