Genesis 7

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The Great Flood

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

¹And YHWH said to Noah, “Go, you and all your house, into the ark, because you I have seen righteous before My face in this generation.

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

²From every clean animal you shall take with you seven by seven, a male and his female; and from the animals that are not clean, from these two: A male and his female;

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.

³also from each bird of the heavens, seven by seven, male and female, to keep alive the seed upon 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.”

⁴For after seven more days I am sending rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights; I will wipe out every living thing that I have made from the face of the ground!”

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

⁵And Noah did according to all that YHWH had commanded him.

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

⁶And Noah was a son of six hundred years, and the flood of waters 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.

⁷And Noah entered—and his sons, and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him—into the ark, from the face of the waters of the flood.

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

⁸From the clean animal, and from the animal that is not clean, and from the bird and everything that crawls on the ground,

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

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

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

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

¹¹In the six hundredth year, in that year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seven and tenth day of the month—on this day burst forth all the fountains of the great deep, and the windows of the heavens were opened.

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

¹²And rain was 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—

¹³On this very 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 kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.

¹⁴they and every beast according to its kind, and all the livestock according to its kind, and every crawling thing that crawls on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind (every bird of every wing).

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

¹⁵And they came to Noah, to the ark, two by two, from all the flesh in which is 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.

¹⁶And those coming in, male and female from all flesh, they went in as God had commanded him. And YHWH shut it behind him.

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

¹⁷And the flood kept coming forty days on the earth, and the waters multiplied, and they lifted up the ark, and it rose 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.

¹⁸And the waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark moved about on the face of the waters.

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

¹⁹And the waters prevailed greatly, greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains that were under all the heavens were covered.

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

²⁰Five and ten cubits upward the waters prevailed, and the mountains were covered.

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

²¹And all flesh that moved on the earth perished—the bird, and the livestock, and the beast, and every swarming thing that swarms on the earth, and all mankind.

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

²²Everything that had in its nostrils the breath of the spirit of life—of all that was on the dry land—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.

²³And He wiped out every living thing that was on the face of the ground: From mankind to livestock to crawling thing and to the bird of the heavens. And they were wiped out from the earth, and only Noah remained, and those who were with him in the ark.

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

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