7:1 Then the LORD said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this generation.
7:2 You shall take ①with you ②seven pairs of every clean animal, a male and his female; and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and his female;
▷ ①Lit to ②Lit seven seven
7:3 also of the birds of the sky, ①seven pairs, male and female, to keep their ②offspring alive on the face of all the earth.
▷ ①Lit seven seven ②Lit seed
7:4 For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and I will wipe out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made.”
7:5 So Noah acted in accordance with everything that the LORD had commanded him.
7:6 Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water ①came upon the earth.
▷ ①Lit was
7:7 Then Noah and his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the waters of the flood.
7:8 Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that crawls on the ground,
7:9 they all went into the ark to Noah ①by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
▷ ①Lit two two
7:10 Now it came about after the seven days, that the waters of the flood ①came upon the earth.
▷ ①Lit were
7:11 In 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 ①floodgates of the sky were opened.
▷ ①Or windows of the heavens
7:12 The rain ①fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
▷ ①Lit was
7:13 On this very same day Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark,
7:14 they and every animal according to its kind, and all the livestock according to ①their kind, and every crawling thing that crawls on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, ②all sorts of birds.
▷ ①Lit its ②Lit every bird, every wing
7:15 So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.
7:16 Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and the LORD closed the door behind him.
7:17 Then the flood ①came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.
▷ ①Lit was
7:18 The water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark ①floated on the ②surface of the water.
▷ ①Lit went ②Lit face
7:19 And the water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains ①everywhere under the heavens were covered.
▷ ①Lit which were under all the heavens
7:20 The water prevailed ①fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.
▷ ①About 23 ft. or 6.7 m
7:21 So all ①creatures that moved on the earth perished: birds, livestock, animals, and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind;
▷ ①Lit flesh
7:22 of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
7:23 So He wiped out ①every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from mankind to animals, to crawling things, and the birds of the sky, and they were wiped out from the earth; and only Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.
▷ ①Lit all existence
7:24 The water prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.