1Then the LORD said to Noah, ‘Go into the ark with your whole family. I know that you are a godly man among the people of today.2Take seven pairs of every kind of “clean” animal with you. Take a male and a female of each kind. Take one pair of every kind of animal that is not “clean”. Take a male and a female of each kind.3Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird. Take a male and a female of each kind. Then every kind will be kept alive. They can spread out again over the whole earth.4Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth. It will rain for 40 days and 40 nights. I will destroy from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.’5Noah did everything the LORD commanded him to do.6Noah was 600 years old when the flood came on the earth.7He and his sons entered the ark. His wife and his sons’ wives went with them. They entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.8Male and female pairs of ‘clean’ animals and pairs of animals that were not ‘clean’ came to Noah. So did male and female pairs of birds and of all the creatures that move along the ground.9All of them came to Noah and entered the ark. Everything happened just as God had commanded Noah.10After seven days the flood came on the earth.11Noah was 600 years old. It was the 17th day of the second month of the year. On that day all of the springs at the bottom of the oceans burst open. God opened the windows of the sky.12Rain fell on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights.13On that same day Noah entered the ark together with his sons Shem, Ham and Japheth. Noah’s wife and the wives of his three sons also entered it.14They had every kind of wild animal with them. They had every kind of livestock, creature that moves along the ground, and bird that flies.15Pairs of all living creatures that breathe came to Noah and entered the ark.16The animals going in were male and female of every living thing. Everything happened just as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.17For 40 days the flood kept coming on the earth. As the waters rose higher, they lifted the ark high above the earth.18The waters rose higher and higher on the earth. And the ark floated on the water.19The waters rose on the earth until all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.20The waters continued to rise until they covered the mountains by more than 7 metres.21Every living thing that moved on land died. The birds, the livestock and the wild animals died. All of the creatures that fill the earth also died. And so did every human being.22Every breathing thing on dry land died.23Every living thing on earth was wiped out. People and animals were destroyed. The creatures that move along the ground and the birds in the sky were wiped out. Everything on earth was destroyed. Only Noah and those with him in the ark were left.24The waters flooded the earth for 150 days.
Genesis 7
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1Then 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. (Ge 6:9; Mt 24:38; Lu 17:26; Heb 11:7; 1Pe 3:20; 2Pe 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, (Ge 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.” (Ge 6:17; Ge 7:12; Ge 7:17; Job 37:11)5And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him. (Ge 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. (Ge 8:2; 2Ki 7:19; Ps 78:23; Pr 8:28; Isa 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. (Ge 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. (Ge 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. (Ge 7:4; Ge 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. (Ge 6:13; Ge 6:17; Ge 7:4; 2Pe 3:6)22Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died. (Ge 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. (2Pe 2:5)24And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.