Genesis 6:1–7:24

¹And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them, ²and sons of God see the daughters of men that they are fair, and they take to themselves women of all whom they have chosen.

³And Jehovah saith, ‘My Spirit doth not strive in man—to the age; in their erring they are flesh:’ and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.

⁴The fallen ones were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when sons of God come in unto daughters of men, and they have borne to them—they are the heroes, who, from of old, are the men of name. ⁵And Jehovah seeth that abundant is the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day.

⁶And Jehovah repenteth that He hath made man in the earth, and He grieveth Himself—unto His heart. ⁷And Jehovah saith, ‘I wipe away man whom I have prepared from off the face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto fowl of the heavens, for I have repented that I have made them.’

⁸And Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah. ⁹These are births of Noah: Noah is a righteous man; perfect he hath been among his generations; with God hath Noah walked habitually. ¹⁰And Noah begetteth three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

¹¹And the earth is corrupt before God, and the earth is filled with violence. ¹²And God seeth the earth, and lo, it hath been corrupted, for all flesh hath corrupted its way on the earth.

¹³And God said to Noah, ‘An end of all flesh hath come before Me, for the earth hath been full of violence from their presence; and lo, I am destroying them with the earth.

¹⁴‘Make for thyself an ark of gopher-wood; rooms dost thou make with the ark, and thou hast covered it within and without with cypress; ¹⁵and this is that which thou dost with it: three hundred cubits is the length of the ark, fifty cubits its breadth, and thirty cubits its height; ¹⁶a window dost thou make for the ark, and unto a cubit thou dost restrain it from above; and the opening of the ark thou dost put in its side,—lower, second, and third stories dost thou make it.

¹⁷‘And I, lo, I am bringing in the deluge of waters on the earth to destroy all flesh, in which is a living spirit, from under the heavens; all that is in the earth doth expire.

¹⁸‘And I have established My covenant with thee, and thou hast come in unto the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy son’s wives with thee; ¹⁹and of all that liveth, of all flesh, two of every sort thou dost bring in unto the ark, to keep alive with thee; male and female are they. ²⁰Of the fowl after its kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort they come in unto thee, to keep alive.

²¹‘And thou, take to thyself of all food that is eaten; and thou hast gathered unto thyself, and it hath been to thee and to them for food.’

²²And Noah doth according to all that God hath commanded him; so hath he done.

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¹And Jehovah saith to Noah, ‘Come in, thou and all thy house, unto the ark, for thee I have seen righteous before Me in this generation; ²of all the clean beasts thou dost take to thee seven pairs, a male and its female; and of the beasts which are not clean two, a male and its female; ³also, of fowl of the heavens seven pairs, a male and a female, to keep alive seed on the face of all the earth; ⁴for after other seven days I am sending rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and have wiped away all the substance that I have made from off the face of the ground.’

⁵And Noah doth according to all that Jehovah hath commanded him: ⁶and Noah is a son of six hundred years, and the deluge of waters hath been upon the earth. ⁷And Noah goeth in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, unto the ark, from the presence of the waters of the deluge; ⁸of the clean beasts and of the beasts that are not clean, and of the fowl, and of every thing that is creeping upon the ground, ⁹two by two they have come in unto Noah, unto the ark, a male and a female, as God hath commanded Noah. ¹⁰And it cometh to pass, after the seventh of the days, that waters of the deluge have been on the earth.

¹¹In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened, ¹²and the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights.

¹³In this self-same day went in Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, unto the ark; ¹⁴they, and every living creature after its kind, and every beast after its kind, and every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird—every wing. ¹⁵And they come in unto Noah, unto the ark, two by two of all the flesh in which is a living spirit; ¹⁶and they that are coming in, male and female of all flesh, have come in as God hath commanded him, and Jehovah doth close it for him.

¹⁷And the deluge is forty days on the earth, and the waters multiply, and lift up the ark, and it is raised up from off the earth; ¹⁸and the waters are mighty, and multiply exceedingly upon the earth; and the ark goeth on the face of the waters. ¹⁹And the waters have been very very mighty on the earth, and covered are all the high mountains which are under the whole heavens; ²⁰fifteen cubits upwards have the waters become mighty, and the mountains are covered.

²¹And expire doth all flesh that is moving on the earth, among fowl, and among cattle, and among beasts, and among all the teeming things which are teeming on the earth, and all mankind; ²²all in whose nostrils is breath of a living spirit—of all that is in the dry land—have died. ²³And wiped away is all the substance that is on the face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto fowl of the heavens; yea, they are wiped away from the earth, and only Noah is left, and those who are with him in the ark; ²⁴and the waters are mighty on the earth a hundred and fifty days.

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