Genesis 7

The Great Flood

7Then the ^aLord said to Noah, ^b“Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that ^cyou are righteous before Me in this generation. ²You shall take with you seven each of every ^dclean animal, a male and his female; ^etwo each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female; ³also seven each of birds of the air, male and female, to keep ¹the species alive on the face of all the earth. ⁴For after ^fseven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth ^gforty days and forty nights, and I will ²destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made.” ^5hAnd Noah did according to all that the Lord commanded him. ⁶Noah was ⁱsix hundred years old when the floodwaters were on the earth.

^7jSo Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood. ⁸Of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth, ⁹two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. ¹⁰And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth. ¹¹In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on ^kthat day all ^lthe fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the ^mwindows of heaven were opened. ¹²ⁿAnd the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

¹³On the very same day Noah and Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark—^14othey and every beast after its kind, all cattle after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every ^psort. ¹⁵And they ^qwent into the ark to Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life. ¹⁶So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in ^ras God had commanded him; and the Lord shut him in.

^17sNow the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. ¹⁸The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, ^tand the ark moved about on the surface of the waters. ¹⁹And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered. ²⁰The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. ^21uAnd all flesh died that moved on ³the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man. ²²All in ^vwhose nostrils was the breath ⁴of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died. ²³So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only ^wNoah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive. ^24xAnd the waters prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days.