| Berean Study Bible | NET Bible |
| 1Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. | 1The LORD said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation. |
| 2You 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; | 2You must take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, the male and its mate, two of every kind of unclean animal, the male and its mate, |
| 3and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth. | 3and also seven of every kind of bird in the sky, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of the earth. |
| 4For 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.” | 4For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made." |
| 5And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him. | 5And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him. |
| 6Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth. | 6Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed the earth. |
| 7And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. | 7Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives because of the floodwaters. |
| 8The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground | 8Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground, |
| 9came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. | 9male and female, came into the ark to Noah, just as God had commanded him. |
| 10And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth. | 10And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth. |
| 11In 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. | 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 open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. |
| 12And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. | 12And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights. |
| 13On 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— | 13On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons' three wives. |
| 14they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature. | 14They entered, along with every living creature after its kind, every animal after its kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, everything with wings. |
| 15They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life. | 15Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah. |
| 16And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in. | 16Those that entered were male and female, just as God commanded him. Then the LORD shut him in. |
| 17For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth. | 17The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth. |
| 18So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters. | 18The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters. |
| 19Finally, the waters completely inundated the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered. | 19The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered. |
| 20The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits. | 20The waters rose more than twenty feet above the mountains. |
| 21And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind. | 21And all living things that moved on the earth died, including the birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all humankind. |
| 22Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. | 22Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. |
| 23And 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. | 23So the LORD destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived. |
| 24And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days. | 24The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 days. |
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