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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.”

5 Noah did everything that Yahweh told him to do.

Noah did exactly what the Lord ordered him to do.

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

Noah was 600 when the flood waters covered 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.

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

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

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

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

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

After seven days the floodwaters swept over 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Everything on land that breathed, 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.

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.

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

The earth remained flooded for 150 days.

The Great Flood