| Christian Standard Bible | New Living Translation |
| 1Then the LORD said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before me in this generation. | 1When everything was ready, the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the boat with all your family, for among all the people of the earth, I can see that you alone are righteous. |
| 2You are to take with you seven pairs, a male and its female, of all the clean animals, and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and its female, | 2Take with you seven pairs—male and female—of each animal I have approved for eating and for sacrifice, and take one pair of each of the others. |
| 3and seven pairs, male and female, of the birds of the sky--in order to keep offspring alive throughout the earth. | 3Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird. There must be a male and a female in each pair to ensure that all life will survive on the earth after the flood. |
| 4Seven days from now I will make it rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing I have made I will wipe off the face of the earth." | 4Seven days from now I will make the rains pour down on the earth. And it will rain for forty days and forty nights, until I have wiped from the earth all the living things I have created.” |
| 5And Noah did everything that the LORD commanded him. | 5So Noah did everything as the LORD commanded him. |
| 6Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came and water covered the earth. | 6Noah was 600 years old when the flood covered the earth. |
| 7So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives entered the ark because of the floodwaters. | 7He went on board the boat to escape the flood—he and his wife and his sons and their wives. |
| 8From the clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and every creature that crawls on the ground, | 8With them were all the various kinds of animals—those approved for eating and for sacrifice and those that were not—along with all the birds and the small animals that scurry along the ground. |
| 9two of each, male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, just as God had commanded him. | 9They entered the boat in pairs, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah. |
| 10Seven days later the floodwaters came on the earth. | 10After seven days, the waters of the flood came and covered the earth. |
| 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 sources of the vast watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened, | 11When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky. |
| 12and the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights. | 12The rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights. |
| 13On that same day Noah along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah's wife, and his three sons' wives entered the ark with him. | 13That very day Noah had gone into the boat with his wife and his sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—and their wives. |
| 14They entered it with all the wildlife according to their kinds, all livestock according to their kinds, all the creatures that crawl on the earth according to their kinds, every flying creature--all the birds and every winged creature--according to their kinds. | 14With them in the boat were pairs of every kind of animal—domestic and wild, large and small—along with birds of every kind. |
| 15Two of every creature that has the breath of life in it came to Noah and entered the ark. | 15Two by two they came into the boat, representing every living thing that breathes. |
| 16Those that entered, male and female of every creature, entered just as God had commanded him. Then the LORD shut him in. | 16A male and female of each kind entered, just as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD closed the door behind them. |
| 17The flood continued for forty days on the earth; the water increased and lifted up the ark so that it rose above the earth. | 17For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper, covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth. |
| 18The water surged and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. | 18As the waters rose higher and higher above the ground, the boat floated safely on the surface. |
| 19Then the water surged even higher on the earth, and all the high mountains under the whole sky were covered. | 19Finally, the water covered even the highest mountains on the earth, |
| 20The mountains were covered as the water surged above them more than twenty feet. | 20rising more than twenty-two feet above the highest peaks. |
| 21Every creature perished--those that crawl on the earth, birds, livestock, wildlife, and those that swarm on the earth, as well as all mankind. | 21All the living things on earth died—birds, domestic animals, wild animals, small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the people. |
| 22Everything with the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils--everything on dry land died. | 22Everything that breathed and lived on dry land died. |
| 23He wiped out every living thing that was on the face of the earth, from mankind to livestock, to creatures that crawl, to the birds of the sky, and they were wiped off the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark. | 23God wiped out every living thing on the earth—people, livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and the birds of the sky. All were destroyed. The only people who survived were Noah and those with him in the boat. |
| 24And the water surged on the earth 150 days. | 24And the floodwaters covered the earth for 150 days. |
| The Christian Standard Bible. Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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