Parallel Chapters Entering the Ark
(Genesis 3:1-7; Romans 5:12-21; 2 Peter 3:1-9) | 1The LORD then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. | 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 said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this time. | 1And 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. | 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. |
| 2Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, | 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, | 2"You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female; | 2Of 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. | 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, |
| 3and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. | 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. | 3also of the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth. | 3Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. | 3and seven pairs, male and female, of the birds of the sky--in order to keep offspring alive on the face of the whole earth. |
| 4Seven 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 creature I have made." | 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.” | 4"For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made." | 4For 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. | 4Seven days from now I will make it rain on the earth 40 days and 40 nights, and I will wipe off from the face of the earth every living thing I have made." |
| 5And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him. | 5And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him. | 5Noah did according to all that the LORD had commanded him. | 5And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him. | 5And Noah did everything that the LORD commanded him. |
The Floodwaters Arrive | 6Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. | 6Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth. | 6Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water came upon the earth. | 6And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. | 6Noah was 600 years old when the flood came and water covered the earth. |
| 7And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. | 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. | 7Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood. | 7And 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. | 7So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives entered the ark because of the waters of the flood. |
| 8Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, | 8Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground, | 8Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that creeps on the ground, | 8Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, | 8From the clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and every creature that crawls on the ground, |
| 9male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah. | 9two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah. | 9there went into the ark to Noah by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. | 9There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. | 9two of each, male and female, entered the ark with Noah, just as God had commanded him. |
| 10And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth. | 10And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth. | 10It came about after the seven days, that the water of the flood came upon the earth. | 10And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. | 10Seven days later the waters of the flood came on the earth. |
| 11In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month--on that day all the springs 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 forth, and the windows 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 the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened. | 11In 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. | 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 watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened, |
| 12And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights. | 12And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. | 12The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. | 12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. | 12and the rain fell on the earth 40 days and 40 nights. |
| 13On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark. | 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 the very same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark, | 13In 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; | 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. |
| 14They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings. | 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. | 14they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, all sorts of birds. | 14They, 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. | 14They entered it with all the wildlife according to their kinds, all livestock according to their kinds, the creatures that crawl on the earth according to their kinds, all birds, every fowl, and everything with wings according to their kinds. |
| 15Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark. | 15They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life. | 15So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life. | 15And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. | 15Two of all flesh that has the breath of life in it entered the ark with Noah. |
| 16The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in. | 16And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him. And the LORD shut him in. | 16Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and the LORD closed it behind him. | 16And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in. | 16Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered just as God had commanded him. Then the LORD shut him in. |
The Duration of the Flood | 17For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. | 17The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. | 17Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth. | 17And 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. | 17The flood continued for 40 days on the earth; the waters increased and lifted up the ark so that it rose above the earth. |
| 18The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. | 18The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters. | 18The water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. | 18And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. | 18The waters surged and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. |
| 19They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. | 19And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered. | 19The water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains everywhere under the heavens were covered. | 19And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. | 19Then the waters surged even higher on the earth, and all the high mountains under the whole sky were covered. |
| 20The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits. | 20The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep. | 20The water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered. | 20Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. | 20The mountains were covered as the waters surged above them more than 20 feet. |
| 21Every living thing that moved on land perished--birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. | 21And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind. | 21All flesh that moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind; | 21And 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: | 21Every creature perished--those that crawl on the earth, birds, livestock, wildlife, and those that swarm on the earth, as well as all mankind. |
| 22Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. | 22Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died. | 22of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died. | 22All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. | 22Everything with the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils--everything on dry land died. |
| 23Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark. | 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. | 23Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark. | 23And 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. | 23He wiped out every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, 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. |
| 24The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days. | 24And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days. | 24The water prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days. | 24And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. | 24And the waters surged on the earth 150 days. |
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