Genesis 7


Noah and the Flood

Then Yahweh said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be arighteous before Me in this generation.
2 You shall take 1with you of every aclean animal 2by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean, two, a male and his female; 3 also of the birds of the 1sky, 2by sevens, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of all the earth. 4 For after aseven more days, I will send rain on the earth bforty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land cevery living thing that I have made.” 5 aAnd Noah did according to all that Yahweh had commanded him.
6 Now Noah was asix hundred years old when the flood of water 1came upon the earth.
7 Then aNoah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood. 8 aOf clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that creeps on the ground, 9 1by twos they came to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. 10 Now it happened after athe seven days, that the water of the flood 1came upon the earth. 11 In the asix hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all bthe fountains of the great deep split open, and the 1floodgates of the sky were opened. 12 aThen the rain 1came upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
13 On this very day aNoah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark,
14 they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after 1their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind—every 2fowl, every winged creature. 15 So they came to Noah into the ark, aby twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life. 16 And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and Yahweh closed it behind him.
17 Then the flood 1came upon the earth for aforty days, and the water multiplied and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.
18 And the water prevailed and multiplied greatly upon the earth, and the ark went on the 1surface of the water. 19 And the water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered. 20 The water prevailed 1fifteen cubits higher, aand the mountains were covered. 21 aAnd all flesh that 1moved on the earth breathed its last, that is birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, as well as all mankind. 22 All ain whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life—of all that was on the dry land—died. 23 Thus He blotted out 1every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the 2sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only aNoah remained, and those that were with him in the ark. 24 aAnd the water prevailed upon the earth 150 days.
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