Genesis 7:6–24

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.

¹⁷Then the flood ¹came upon the earth for ^aforty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.

¹⁸The water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark ¹floated on the ²surface of the water.

¹⁹The water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains ¹everywhere under the heavens were covered.

²⁰The water prevailed fifteen ¹cubits higher, ^aand the mountains were covered.

^21aAll flesh that ¹moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind;

²²of all that was on the dry land, all ^ain whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

²³Thus He blotted out ¹every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the ²sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only ^aNoah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.

^24aThe water prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.