[1] Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ark, for
I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation. [2] You shall
take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female.
Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female. [3]
Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep
seed alive on the surface of all the earth. [4] In seven days, I will cause
it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing
that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground." [5] Noah
did everything that Yahweh commanded him. [6] Noah was six hundred years
old when the flood of waters came on the earth. [7] Noah went into the ark
with his sons, his wife, and his sons` wives, because of the waters of the
flood. [8] Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything
that creeps on the ground [9] went by pairs to Noah into the ark, male and
female, as God commanded Noah. [10] It happened after the seven days, that
the waters of the flood came on the earth. [11] In the six hundredth year
of Noah`s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month,
on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and
the sky`s windows were opened. [12] The rain was on the earth forty days
and forty nights. [13] In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth,
the sons of Noah, and Noah`s wife, and the three wives of his sons with
them, entered into the ark; [14] they, and every animal after its kind, all
the cattle after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth
after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.
[15] They went to Noah into the ark, by pairs of all flesh with the breath
of life in them. [16] Those who went in, went in male and female of all
flesh, as God commanded him; and Yahweh shut him in. [17] The flood was
forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ark, and
it was lifted up above the earth. [18] The waters prevailed, and increased
greatly on the earth; and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
[19] The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains
that were under the whole sky were covered. [20] The waters prevailed
fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. [21] All flesh died
that moved on the earth, including birds, cattle, animals, every creeping
thing that creeps on the earth, and every man. [22] All in whose nostrils
was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land,
died. [23] Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the
ground, including man, cattle, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They
were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with
him in the ark. [24] The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty
days.
