Genesis 7
1 The LORD said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and your whole household, because I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.”
2 From every clean animal, take seven of each kind, the male and its mate; and from the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and its mate.
3 Also take seven of each kind of the birds of the sky, male and female, to keep their offspring alive over the face of the whole earth.
4 For in seven days I will make it rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing I have made.”
5 Noah did everything the LORD had commanded him.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came, the waters over the earth.
7 Noah entered the ark, and with him his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.
8 From the clean animals, the animals that were not clean, the birds, and everything that crawls on the ground,
9 they came two by two into the ark with Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 After the seven days, the floodwaters came upon the earth.
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 springs of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.
12 And rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
13 On that very day, Noah and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and his sons’ three wives with them, entered the ark.
14 They, along with every wild animal according to its kind, all the livestock according to their kind, every creature that crawls on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every bird of every wing.
15 They came to Noah, into the ark, two by two, from every living creature that has the breath of life.
16 Those that entered were male and female, from every living creature; they entered as God had commanded him. And the LORD shut him in.
17 The flood lasted forty days on the earth; the waters rose and lifted the ark, and it rose above the earth.
18 The waters prevailed and rose greatly over the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
19 The waters prevailed greatly, greatly over the earth, and all the high mountains under the whole sky were covered.
20 The waters prevailed fifteen cubits above, and the mountains were covered.
21 Every living thing that moved on the earth died: birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures swarming over the earth, and all human beings.
22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils died.
23 So he wiped out every living thing on the face of the ground, from human beings to livestock, creatures that crawl and birds of the sky; they were wiped from the earth. Only Noah remained, along with those who were with him in the ark.
24 The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 days.
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