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| 1Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation. | 1Then the LORD told Noah, "Come—you and all your household—into the ark, because I've seen that you alone are righteous in this generation. |
| 2Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate, | 2You are to take with you seven pairs of every clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of the unclean animals, a male and its mate; |
| 3and seven pairs of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth. | 3along with seven pairs of the flying birds, male and female, in order to keep their offspring alive on the surface of all the earth. |
| 4For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.” | 4Seven days from now I'll send rain on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights, and I'll destroy every living creature that I've made." |
| 5And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him. | 5Noah did everything that the LORD commanded. |
| 6Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth. | 6Noah was 600 years old when water began to flood the earth. |
| 7And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood. | 7Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives entered the ark with him before the flood waters arrived. |
| 8Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground, | 8From both clean and unclean animals, from birds, and from everything that crawls on the ground, |
| 9two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah. | 9two by two, male and female, they entered the ark to join Noah, just as God had commanded. |
| 10And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth. | 10Seven days later, the flooding started. |
| 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 forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. | 11On the seventeenth day of the second month, when Noah was 600 years old, all the springs of the great deep burst open, the floodgates of the heavens were opened, |
| 12And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. | 12and it rained throughout the earth for 40 days and 40 nights. |
| 13On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark, | 13On that very day, Noah entered the ark with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah's wife, his sons' three wives with them, |
| 14they and every beast, according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, according to its kind, and every bird, according to its kind, every winged creature. | 14along with every species of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and every creature that has wings. |
| 15They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life. | 15Two of each living creature entered the ark with Noah. |
| 16And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him. And the LORD shut him in. | 16The males and females of each living creature entered the ark, just as God had commanded. Then the LORD sealed them inside. |
| 17The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. | 17The flood continued throughout the earth for 40 days, while the flood waters increased, lifting the ark so that it rose above the surface of the earth. |
| 18The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters. | 18The flood waters continued to surge, increasing throughout the earth, while the ark floated on the surface of the flood water. |
| 19And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered. | 19The flood water surged even higher throughout the earth, until all the highest mountains under the sky were covered. |
| 20The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep. | 20The flood waters rose 15 cubits above the mountains. |
| 21And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind. | 21Every living thing on earth died—flying creatures, livestock, wildlife, all creatures that swarm over the earth, and all human beings. |
| 22Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died. | 22Everything that breathed and everything that had lived on dry land died. |
| 23He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark. | 23All existing creatures that had lived on the surface of the ground were annihilated, from humans to livestock, from crawling creatures to birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah remained, along with those who were with him in the ark. |
| 24And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days. | 24The flood waters surged over the earth for 150 days. |
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