Genesis 7

¹ Yahweh said to Noah, ‘Go aboard the ark, you and all your household, for you alone among this generation do I see as a good man in my judgement.

² Of all the clean animals you must take seven of each kind, both male and female; of the unclean animals you must take two, a male and its female

³ (and of the birds of heaven also, seven of each kind, both male and female), to propagate their kind over the whole earth.

⁴ For in seven days’ time I mean to make it rain on the earth for forty days and nights, and I will rid the earth of every living thing that I made.’

⁵ Noah did all that Yahweh ordered.

⁶ Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters appeared on the earth.

⁷ Noah with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives boarded the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

⁸ (Of the clean animals and the animals that are not clean, of the birds and all that crawls on the ground,

⁹ two of each kind boarded the ark with Noah, a male and a female, according to the order God gave Noah.)

¹⁰ Seven days later the waters of the flood appeared on the earth.

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, and on the seventeenth day of that month, that very day all the springs of the great deep broke through, and the sluices of heaven opened.

¹² It rained on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

¹³ That very day Noah and his sons Shem, Ham and Japheth boarded the ark, with Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons,

¹⁴ and with them wild beasts of every kind, cattle of every kind, reptiles of every kind that crawls on the earth, birds of every kind, all that flies, everything with wings.

¹⁵ One pair of all that is flesh and has the breath of life boarded the ark with Noah;

¹⁶ and so there went in a male and a female of every creature that is flesh, just as God had ordered him. And Yahweh closed the door behind Noah.

¹⁷ The flood lasted forty days on the earth. The waters swelled, lifting the ark until it was raised above the earth.

¹⁸ The waters rose and swelled greatly on the earth. After a hundred and fifty days the waters fell,

¹⁹ and in the seventh month, the earth so that all the highest mountains under the whole of heaven were submerged.

²⁰ The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, submerging the mountains.

²¹ And so all things of flesh perished that moved on the earth, birds, cattle, wild beasts, everything that swarms on the earth, and every man.

²² Everything with the breath of life in its nostrils died, everything on dry land.

²³ Yahweh destroyed every living thing on the face of the earth, man and animals, reptiles, and the birds of heaven. He rid the earth of them, so that only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.

²⁴ The waters rose on the earth for a hundred and fifty days.