Genesis 7

¹Yahweh said to Noah, “Come, you and all your household, into the ark, for I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation.

²You shall take for yourself seven each of every clean animal, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.

³Also of the birds of the heavens, seven each, male and female, to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth.

⁴For in seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the face of the ground.”

⁵Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.

⁶Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.

⁷Noah went into the ark with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.

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

⁹went two by two to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

¹⁰After the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth.

¹¹In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the windows of heaven were opened.

¹²The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

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

¹⁴they, and every wild animal after its kind, all the animals after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird, every winged thing.

¹⁵Pairs from all flesh with the spirit of life in them went to Noah into the ark.

¹⁶Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then Yahweh shut him in.

¹⁷The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

¹⁸The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ark went on the face of the waters.

¹⁹The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered.

²⁰The waters prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.

²¹All flesh died that moved on the earth, among the birds, the animals, the wild animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

²²All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

²³He destroyed every living thing that was on the face of the ground, from man to animals, to creeping things, and to birds of the heavens. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.

²⁴The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.