1 The Lord then said to Noah, "Go into
the ark, you and your whole family,
because I have found you righteous in
this generation.
2 Take with you seven of every kind of
clean animal, a male and its mate, and
two of every kind of unclean animal, a
male and its mate,
3 and also seven of every kind of bird,
male and female, to keep their various
kinds alive throughout the earth.
4 Seven days from now I will send rain on
the earth for forty days and forty nights,
and I will wipe from the face of the earth
every living creature I have made."
5 And Noah did all that the Lord
commanded him.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when
the floodwaters came on the earth.
7 And Noah and his sons and his wife
and his sons' wives entered the ark to
escape the waters of the flood.
8 Pairs of clean and unclean 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.
10 And after the seven days the
floodwaters came on the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life,
on the seventeenth day of the second
month-on that day all the springs of the
great deep burst forth, and the
floodgates of the heavens were opened.
12 And rain fell on the earth forty days
and forty nights.
13 On that very day Noah and his sons,
Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with
his wife and the wives of his three sons,
entered the ark.
14 They had with them every wild animal
according to its kind, all livestock
according to their kinds, every creature
that moves along the ground according
to its kind and every bird according to its
kind, everything with wings.
15 Pairs of all creatures that have the
breath of life in them came to Noah and
entered the ark.
16 The animals going in were male and
female of every living thing, as God had
commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut
him in.
17 For forty days the flood kept coming
on the earth, and as the waters
increased they lifted the ark high above
the earth.
18 The waters rose and increased greatly
on the earth, and the ark floated on the
surface of the water.
19 They rose greatly on the earth, and all
the high mountains under the entire
heavens were covered.
20 The waters rose and covered the
mountains to a depth of more than
twenty feet. ,
21 Every living thing that moved on the
earth perished-birds, livestock, wild
animals, all the creatures that swarm
over the earth, and all mankind.
22 Everything on dry land that had the
breath of life in its nostrils died.
23 Every living thing on the face of the
earth was wiped out; men and animals
and the creatures that move along the
ground and the birds of the air were
wiped from the earth. Only Noah was
left, and those with him in the ark.
24 The waters flooded the earth for a
hundred and fifty days.
