1Verse 1. Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
2Verse 2. You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;
3Verse 3. and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.
4Verse 4. For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
5Verse 5. And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
6Verse 6. Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
7Verse 7. And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
8Verse 8. The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
9Verse 9. came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
10Verse 10. And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.
11Verse 11. In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
12Verse 12. And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
13Verse 13. On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—
14Verse 14. they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.
15Verse 15. They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.
16Verse 16. And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
17Verse 17. For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
18Verse 18. So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
19Verse 19. Finally, the waters completely inundated the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.
20Verse 20. The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.
21Verse 21. And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.
22Verse 22. Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
23Verse 23. And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.
24Verse 24. And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.