Then the LORD said
to Noah
, "Enter
the ark
, you and all
your household
, for you alone I have seen
to be arighteous
before
Me in this
1time
.
"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
;
also of the birds
of the 1sky
, 2by sevens
, male
and female
, to keep
3offspring
alive
on the face
of all
the earth
.
"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
."
aNoah did
according to all
that the LORD
had commanded
him.
Now Noah was asix
hundred
years
old
when the flood
of water
1came
upon the earth
.
Then aNoah and his sons
and his wife
and his sons'
wives
with him entered
the ark
because
of the water
of the flood
.
aOf clean animals
and animals
that are not clean
and birds
and everything
that creeps
on the ground
,
there went into the ark
to Noah
1by twos
, male
and female
, as God
had commanded
Noah
.
It came about after athe seven
days
, that the water
of the flood
1came
upon the earth
.
In the asix hundredth
year
of Noah's
life
, in the second
month
, on the seventeenth
day
of the month
, on the same
day
all
bthe fountains
of the great
deep
burst
open
, and the 1floodgates
of the sky
were opened
.
aThe rain 1fell
upon the earth
for forty
days
and forty
nights
.
On the very same
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
,
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
, 2all
sorts
of birds
.
So they went into the ark
to Noah
, aby twos
of all
flesh
in which
was the breath
of life
.
Those that entered, male
and female
of all
flesh
, entered
as God
had commanded
him; and the LORD
closed
it behind
him.
Then the flood 1came
upon the earth
for aforty
days
, and the water
increased
and lifted
up the ark
, so that it rose
above
the earth
.
The water prevailed
and increased
greatly
upon the earth
, and the ark
1floated
on the 2surface
of the water
.
The water prevailed
more
and more
upon the earth
, so that all
the high
mountains
1everywhere
under
the heavens
were covered
.
The water prevailed
fifteen
1cubits
higher
, aand the mountains
were covered
.
aAll flesh
that 1moved
on the earth
perished
, birds
and cattle
and beasts
and every
swarming
thing
that swarms
upon the earth
, and all
mankind
;
of all that was on the dry
land
, all
ain whose
nostrils
was the breath
of the spirit
of life
, died
.
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
was left
, together with those that were with him in the ark
.
aThe water prevailed
upon the earth
one hundred
and fifty
days
.