Genesis 7

¹And the Lord 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.

²From every clean animal take seven pairs, a male and its mate, and from animals that are not clean, two, a male and its mate.

³Also from the flying things of the heavens, seven pairs, male and female, to keep their offspring alive upon the face of all the earth.

⁴For in seven more days I will send rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe out every living thing that I have made from the face of the ground.

⁵And Noah did according to all that the Lord commanded him.

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

⁷And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.

⁸Of clean animals and of animals that are not clean, and of flying things, and of everything that creeps on the ground,

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

¹⁰And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

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

¹²And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

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

¹⁴They and every living thing after its kind, and every animal after its kind, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth after its kind, and every flying thing after its kind, every bird of every wing.

¹⁵And they came to Noah into the ark, two by two of all flesh in which there is the breath of life.

¹⁶And those that entered went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him. And the Lord shut him in.

¹⁷The flood continued forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased and lifted the ark, and it rose above the earth.

¹⁸And the waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark moved upon the face of the waters.

¹⁹And the waters prevailed so greatly upon the earth that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.

²⁰Fifteen cubits above did the waters prevail, and the mountains were covered.

²¹And all flesh died that moved on the earth — birds, livestock, wild animals, all swarming things that swarm on the earth, and all humankind.

²²Everything in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was on dry ground, died.

²³He wiped out every living thing that was on the face of the ground — humankind, animals, creeping things, and flying things of the heavens. They were wiped out from the earth. Only Noah remained, and those who were with him in the ark.

²⁴And the waters prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.