Genesis
7
- The LORD then said to Noah, "Go into
the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in
this generation.
- Take with you seven of every kind of clean
animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male
and its mate,
- and also seven of every kind of bird, male
and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.
- Seven days from now I will send rain on
the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of
the earth every living creature I have made."
- And Noah did all that the LORD commanded
him.
- Noah was six hundred years old when the
floodwaters came on the earth.
- And Noah and his sons and his wife and his
sons' wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
- Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds
and of all creatures that move along the ground,
- male and female, came to Noah and entered
the ark, as God had commanded Noah.
- And after the seven days the floodwaters
came on the earth.
- In the six hundredth year of Noah's life,
on the seventeenth day of the second month -- on that day all the springs
of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
- And rain fell on the earth forty days and
forty nights.
- On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem,
Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered
the ark.
- They had with them every wild animal according
to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves
along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind,
everything with wings.
- Pairs of all creatures that have the breath
of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.
- The animals going in were male and female
of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
- For forty days the flood kept coming on
the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the
earth.
- The waters rose and increased greatly on
the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.
- They rose greatly on the earth, and all
the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered.
- The waters rose and covered the mountains
to a depth of more than twenty feet.
- Every living thing that moved on the earth
perished -- birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over
the earth, and all mankind.
- Everything on dry land that had the breath
of life in its nostrils died.
- Every living thing on the face of the earth
was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground
and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and
those with him in the ark.
- The waters flooded the earth for a hundred
and fifty days.
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