7Then^a Yahweh said to Noah, “Go—you and all your household—into the ark, for I have seen you are righteous before me in this generation. ²From all the clean animals you must take for yourself seven pairs,^b a male and its mate. And from the animals that are not clean you must take two, a male and its mate, ³as well as from the birds of heaven^c seven pairs,^d male and female, to keep their kind alive^e on the face of all the earth. ⁴For within seven days^f I will send rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. And I will blot out all the living creatures that I have made from upon the face of the ground.” ⁵And Noah did according to all that Yahweh commanded him.

The Flood

⁶Noah was six hundred years old^g when^h the flood waters came upon the earth. ⁷And Noah and his sons and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood. ⁸Of clean animals, and of animals which are not clean, and of the birds, and everything that creeps upon the ground, ⁹two of eachⁱ went to Noah, into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. ¹⁰And it happened that after seven days the waters of the flood came over the earth. ¹¹In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month—on that day all the springs of the great deep were split open, and the windows of heaven were opened. ¹²And the rain came upon the earth forty days and forty nights. ¹³On this same day, Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark, ¹⁴they and all the living creatures according to their^j kind, and all the domesticated animals according to their^k kind, and all the creatures that creep upon the earth according to their^l kind, all the birds according to their^m kind, every winged creature. ¹⁵And they came to Noah to the ark, two of each,ⁿ from every living thing in which was the breath of life. ¹⁶And those that came, male and female, of every living thing, came as God had commanded him. And Yahweh shut the door behind him. ¹⁷And the flood came forty days on the earth. And the waters increased, and lifted the ark, and it rose up from the earth. ¹⁸And the waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth. And the ark went upon the surface^o of the waters. ¹⁹And the waters prevailed overwhelmingly^p upon the earth, and they covered all the high mountains which were under the entire heaven.^q ²⁰The waters swelled fifteen cubits above the mountains, covering them.^r ²¹And every living thing that moved on the earth perished—the birds, and the domesticated animals, and the wild animals, and everything that swarmed on the earth, and all humankind. ²²Everything in whose nostrils was the breath of life,^s among all that was on dry land, died. ²³And he^t blotted out every living thing upon the surface of the ground, from humankind, to animals, to creeping things, and to the birds of heaven;^u they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained. ²⁴And the waters prevailed over the earth one hundred and fifty days.

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Footnotes

aOr “And”
bLiterally “seven, seven”
cOr “the sky”
dLiterally “seven, seven”
eLiterally “to keep seed alive”
fLiterally “to seven days still”
gLiterally “was a son of six hundred years”
hOr “and”
iLiterally “two, two”
jOr “its”
kOr “its”
lOr “its”
mOr “its”
nLiterally “two, two”
oHebrew “face”
pLiterally “very very”
qOr “the sky”
rLiterally “Fifteen cubits above the waters swelled, and they covered the mountains”
sLiterally “a breath of spirit of life”
tIn context, God
uOr “the sky”