Genesis 7

¹And Jehovah said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

²Of 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:

³of the birds also of the heavens, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

⁴For 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.

⁵And Noah did according unto all that Jehovah commanded him.

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

⁷And 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.

⁸Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creepeth upon the ground,

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

¹⁰And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

¹¹In 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.

¹²And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

¹³In 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;

¹⁴they, 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 bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

¹⁵And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.

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

¹⁷And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

¹⁸And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

¹⁹And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered.

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

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

²²all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

²³And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only was left, and they that were with him in the ark.

²⁴And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.

Genesis 7

¹Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

²You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;

³and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.

⁴For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”

⁵And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.

⁶Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.

⁷And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

⁸The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground

⁹came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

¹⁰And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.

¹¹In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

¹²And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

¹³On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—

¹⁴they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.

¹⁵They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.

¹⁶And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.

¹⁷For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.

¹⁸So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

¹⁹Finally, the waters completely inundated the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.

²⁰The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.

²¹And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.

²²Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

²³And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.

²⁴And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.