1De dag brak aan waarop de HERE tegen Noach zei: ‘Ga met uw familie aan boord van de ark, want u bent de enige rechtvaardige tussen al die anderen die de aarde bewonen.2Neem ook de dieren aan boord, van elke soort één paar, uitgezonderd de dieren die Ik heb bestemd tot voedsel en offer.3Van die dieren moet u zeven paar aan boord nemen, evenals van de vogels. Op die manier zullen ze na de grote watervloed hun soort in stand houden.4Over een week zal het gaan regenen. Veertig dagen en nachten achter elkaar. Alle levende wezens die Ik heb gemaakt en die op het droge leven, zullen sterven.’5Noach volgde al de bevelen van de HERE op.6Hij was zeshonderd jaar oud toen de vloed over de aarde kwam7en hij ging met zijn vrouw, zijn zonen en hun vrouwen in de ark om aan de vloed te ontkomen.8-9Alle dieren die bestemd waren om te offeren of om op te eten, en de andere soorten, kwamen in paren naar de ark: mannetjes en vrouwtjes, precies zoals God het Noach had gezegd.10-11Een week later, toen Noach zeshonderd jaar oud was, op de zeventiende dag van de tweede maand, stroomde de regen uit de hemel neer en braken de ondergrondse watermassaʼs open.12En dat gedurende veertig dagen en nachten!13Maar Noach was die dag met zijn vrouw, hun zonen Sem, Cham en Jafet en hun vrouwen aan boord van de ark gegaan.14Bij hen in de ark zaten alle diersoorten, zowel wilde dieren als vee, kruipende dieren en vogels.15Ze kwamen twee aan twee, mannetjes en vrouwtjes, precies zoals God het had bevolen.16Toen sloot de HERE God de toegang tot de ark.17Veertig dagen lang raasde de enorme watervloed over de aarde, bedekte alles en nam de ark hoog op zijn golven mee.18Het water steeg en steeg, maar de ark bleef veilig drijven.19Ten slotte bedekte het water ook de hoogste bergen.20Het stond zeven meter boven de hoogste bergtoppen.21En alle levende wezens op aarde verdronken: vogels, vee, wilde en kruipende dieren en alle mensen,22alles wat ademde en op het land leefde.23God vernietigde alles, uitgezonderd Noach en zijn familie die in de ark waren.24De watervloed bedekte de aarde honderdvijftig dagen lang.
Genesis 7
English Standard Version
van Crossway1Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation. (Gen 6:9; Mat 24:38; Luk 17:26; Heb 11:7; 1 Petr 3:20; 2 Petr 2:5)2Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals,[1] the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate, (Gen 8:20)3and seven pairs[2] of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.4For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing[3] that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.” (Gen 6:17; Gen 7:12; Gen 7:17; Job 37:11)5And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him. (Gen 6:22)6Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth.7And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.8Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,9two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.10And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.11In 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 forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. (Gen 8:2; 2 Kon 7:19; Ps 78:23; Spr 8:28; Jes 24:18; Am 9:6; Mal 3:10)12And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.13On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark,14they and every beast, according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, according to its kind, and every bird, according to its kind, every winged creature.15They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life. (Gen 6:20)16And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him. And the Lord shut him in. (Gen 7:2)17The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. (Gen 7:4; Gen 7:12)18The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters.19And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.20The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits[4] deep.21And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind. (Gen 6:13; Gen 6:17; Gen 7:4; 2 Petr 3:6)22Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died. (Gen 2:7)23He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark. (2 Petr 2:5)24And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.