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.
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.
3Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male
and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of
all the earth.
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.
5And Noah did according unto all that the
LORD commanded him.
6And Noah was six
hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon
the earth.
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.
8Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not
clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that
creepeth upon the earth,
9There went in two and two unto Noah into the
ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded
Noah.
10And it came to pass after seven days, that
the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
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.
12And the rain was upon the earth forty days
and forty nights.
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;
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.
15And they went in unto Noah into the ark,
two and two of all flesh, wherein is the
breath of life.
16And they that went in, went in male and
female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and
the LORD shut him in.
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.
18And the waters prevailed, and were
increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went
upon the face of the waters.
19And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon
the earth; and all the high hills, that were under
the whole heaven, were covered.
20Fifteen cubits upward did the waters
prevail; and the mountains were covered.
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:
22All in whose nostrils was the
breath of life, of all that was in
the dry land,
died.
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.
24And the waters prevailed upon the earth an
hundred and fifty days.