Genesis — Chapter 7

Then GOD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, with all your household, for you alone have I found righteous before Me in this generation.

Of every pure animal you shall take seven pairs, male and female mates, and of every animal that is not pure, two, male and female mates;

of the birds of the sky also, seven pairs, male and female, to keep seed alive upon all the earth.

For in seven days’ time I will make it rain upon the earth, forty days and forty nights, and I will blot out from the earth all existence that I created.”

And Noah did just as GOD commanded him.

Noah was six hundred years old when the Flood came, waters upon the earth.

Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the Flood.

Of the pure animals, of the animals that are not pure, of the birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,

two of each, male and female, came to Noah into the ark, as God had commanded Noah.

And on the seventh day 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 dayAll the fountains of the great deep burst apart,And the floodgates of the sky broke open.

(The rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.)

That same day Noah and Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, went into the ark, with Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons—

they and all beasts of every kind, all cattle of every kind, all creatures of every kind that creep on the earth, and all birds of every kind, every bird, every winged thing.

They came to Noah into the ark, two each of all flesh in which there was breath of life.

Thus they that entered comprised male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him. And GOD shut him in.

The Flood continued forty days on the earth, and the waters increased and raised the ark so that it rose above the earth.

The waters swelled and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark drifted upon the waters.

When the waters had swelled much more upon the earth, all the highest mountains everywhere under the sky were covered.

Fifteen cubits higher did the waters swell, as the mountains were covered.

And all flesh that stirred on earth perished—birds, cattle, beasts, and all the things that swarmed upon the earth, and all humankind.

All in whose nostrils was the merest breath of life, all that was on dry land, died.

All existence on earth was blotted out—humans, cattle, creeping things, and birds of the sky; they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.

And when the waters had swelled on the earth one hundred and fifty days,