Genesis 7

1 The LORD said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness 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 You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take 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 Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.

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

4 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface 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 Noah did everything that the LORD commanded him.

Noah did everything that Yahweh told him to do.

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

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

7 Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.

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

8 Clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps on 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 went by pairs to Noah into the ship, 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 After the seven days, the floodwaters came on 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 that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows 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 It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.

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

13 In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship—

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 animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird 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 Pairs from all flesh with the breath of life in them went into the ship to Noah.

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

16 Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then 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 The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted 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 The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.

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

19 The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

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

20 The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.

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

21 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on 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 on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

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

23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

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 The waters flooded the earth one hundred and fifty days.

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

The Great Flood