Genesis 7

¹Then the Lord said to Noah , Go into the ark , you and all your household , for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation .

²Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals , the male and his mate , and a pair of the animals that are not clean , the male and his mate ,

³and seven pairs of the birds of the heavens also, male and female , to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth .

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

⁵And Noah did all that the Lord had 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 to escape the waters of the flood .

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

⁹two and two , male and female , went into the ark with Noah , 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 forth , and the windows of the heavens were opened .

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

¹³On the very same day Noah and his sons , Shem and Ham and Japheth , and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark ,

¹⁴they and every beast , according to its kind , and all the livestock according to their kinds , and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth , according to its kind , and every bird , according to its kind , every winged creature .

¹⁵They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life .

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

¹⁷The flood continued forty days on the earth . The waters increased and bore up the ark , and it rose high above the earth .

¹⁸The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth , and the ark floated on the face of the waters .

¹⁹And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered .

²⁰The waters prevailed above the mountains , covering them fifteen cubits deep.

²¹And all flesh died that moved on the earth , birds , livestock , beasts , all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth , and all mankind .

²²Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died .

²³He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground , man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens . They were blotted out from the earth . Only Noah was left , and those who were with him in the ark .

²⁴And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days .