Genesis 7:1–16

The Flood

¹Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be ^arighteous before Me in this ¹time.

²“You shall take ¹with you of every ^aclean animal ²by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female;

³also of the birds of the ¹sky, ²by sevens, male and female, to keep ³offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

⁴“For after ^aseven more days, I will send rain on the earth ^bforty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land ^cevery living thing that I have made.”

^5aNoah did according to all that the Lord had commanded him.

⁶Now Noah was ^asix hundred years old when the flood of water ¹came upon the earth.

⁷Then ^aNoah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood.

^8aOf clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that creeps on the ground,

⁹there went into the ark to Noah ¹by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

¹⁰It came about after ^athe seven days, that the water of the flood ¹came upon the earth.

¹¹In the ^asix hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all ^bthe fountains of the great deep burst open, and the ¹floodgates of the sky were opened.

^12aThe rain ¹fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

¹³On the very same day ^aNoah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark,

¹⁴they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after ¹their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, ²all sorts of birds.

¹⁵So they went into the ark to Noah, ^aby twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life.

¹⁶Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and the Lord closed it behind him.