1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house
into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
2 Of
every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female:
and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his
female.
3 Of
fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive
upon the face of all the earth.
4 For
yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty
nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the
face of the earth.
5 And
Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
6 And
Noah was six
hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And
Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into
the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of
clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every
thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There
went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had
commanded Noah.
10 And
it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the
earth.
11 In
the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day
of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up,
and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And
the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 In
the selfsame day entered Noah, 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;
14 They,
and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl
after his kind, every bird of every sort.
15 And
they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the
breath of life.
16 And
they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded
him: and the LORD shut him in.
17 And
the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up
the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
18 And
the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark
went upon the face of the waters.
19 And
the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under
the whole heaven, were covered.
20 Fifteen
cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
21 And
all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of
beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
22 All
in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in
the dry land, died.
23 And
every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground,
both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and
they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
