Then 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. Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the
male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean,
the male and his mate, and seven pairs of the birds of the heavens
also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of
all the earth. For in seven days I will send rain on the earth
forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have
made I will blot out from the face of the ground.” And Noah did all
that the LORD had commanded him.
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon
the earth. And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives
with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood. Of
clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and
of everything that creeps on the ground, two and two, male and
female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah. And
after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.
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 forth, and the windows of the heavens were
opened. And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
On 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, they 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. They went into the
ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the
breath of life. And those that entered, male and female of all
flesh, went in as God had commanded him. And the LORD shut him in.
The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased
and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. The waters
prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated
on the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed so mightily on
the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were
covered. The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them
fifteen cubits deep. And all flesh died that moved on the earth,
birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the
earth, and all mankind. Everything on the dry land in whose
nostrils was the breath of life died. He 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. And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.
