Genesis 7
1
And 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; 2 of 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; 3 also, of fowl of
the heavens seven pairs, a male and a female, to keep *alive seed on
the face of all the earth; 4 for 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.' 5 And Noah doth according to
all that Jehovah hath commanded him: 6 and Noah [is] a son of six hundred
years, and the deluge of waters hath been upon the earth. 7 And 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; 8 of 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, 9 two by two
they have come in unto Noah, unto the ark, a male and a female, as God hath
commanded Noah. 10 And it cometh to pass, after the seventh of the days, that
waters of the deluge have been on the earth. 11 In 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, 12 and the shower is on the earth forty days
and forty nights. 13 In 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; 14 they, 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. 15 And they come in unto
Noah, unto the ark, two by two of all the flesh in which [is] a living spirit;
16 and 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. 17 And 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; 18 and the waters are mighty, and multiply
exceedingly upon the earth; and the ark goeth on the
face of the waters. 19 And the waters have been very very
mighty on the earth, and covered are all the high mountains which [are] under
the whole heavens; 20 fifteen cubits upwards have the waters become mighty, and
the mountains are covered; 21 and 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; 22 all in whose
nostrils [is] breath of a living spirit--of all that [is] in the dry land--have
died. 23 And 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; 24 and the waters are mighty on the earth a hundred and
fifty days.