Noah and the Flood

9 This is the accounti of Noah and his family.

Noah was a righteous man, blamelessj among the people of his time,k and he walked faithfully with God.l 10 Noah had three sons: Shem,m Ham and Japheth.n

11 Now the earth was corrupto in God’s sight and was full of violence.p 12 God saw how corruptq the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.r 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroys both them and the earth.t 14 So make yourself an ark of cypressc wood;u make rooms in it and coat it with pitchv inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.d 16 Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubite high all around.f Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwatersw on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.x 18 But I will establish my covenant with you,y and you will enter the arkz—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.a 20 Twob of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kindc of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.d 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”

22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.e

7 The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family,f because I have found you righteousg in this generation. 2 Take with you seven pairs of every kind of cleanh animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 3 and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alivei throughout the earth. 4 Seven days from now I will send rainj on the earthk for forty daysl and forty nights,m and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.n”

5 And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.o

6 Noah was six hundred years oldp when the floodwaters came on the earth. 7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the arkq to escape the waters of the flood. 8 Pairs of clean and uncleanr animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, 9 male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.s 10 And after the seven dayst the floodwaters came on the earth.