Genesis 7

¹And our Lord said to him: Get thee in, thou and all thy house into the ark; for I have seen thee just in my sight in this generation.

²Of all beasts that are clean, thou shalt take seven and seven, male and female:

³but of the beasts that are unclean two and two, male and female. Yea and of the fowls also of the air seven and seven, male and female: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth.

⁴For yet a while, and after seven days I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will clean destroy all substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.

⁵Noe therefore did all things which our Lord had commanded him.

⁶And he was six hundred years old, when the waters of the flood flowed over the earth.

⁷And Noe entered and his sons, his wife and the wives of his sons with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

⁸Of beasts also the clean and the unclean, and of fowls, and of all that moveth upon the earth.

⁹two and two went to Noe into the ark, male and female, as our Lord had commanded Noe.

¹⁰And after the seven days were passed, the waters of the flood flowed over the earth.

¹¹In the six hundred year of the life of Noe, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great depth were broken up, and the flood-gates of heaven were opened:

¹²and the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

¹³In the very point of that day entered Noe, and Sem, and Cham, and Japheth his sons; and his wife, and the three wives of his sons with them into the ark.

¹⁴they and every beast according to their kind, and all cattle in their kind, and all that moveth upon the earth according to their kind, and all fowl according to their kind, all birds, and all that fly.

¹⁵went to Noe into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein there was breath of life.

¹⁶And such as entered in, male and female of all flesh did enter in, as God had commanded him: and our Lord shut him in on the out side.

¹⁷And the flood grew forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth.

¹⁸For they overflowed exceedingly; and filled all on the face of the earth: moreover the ark fleeted upon the waters.

¹⁹And the waters prevailed out of measure upon the earth; and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.

²⁰Fifteen cubits higher was the water above the mountains, which it covered.

²¹And all flesh was consumed that moved upon the earth, of fowl, of cattle, of beasts, and of all creepers, that creep upon the earth: all men,

²²and all things, wherein there is breath of life on the earth, died.

²³And he clean destroyed all substance that was upon the earth, from man even to beast, as well it that creepeth, as the fowls of the air: and they were destroyed from off the earth: but only Noe remained, and they that were with him in the ark.

²⁴And the waters held on above the earth an hundred fifty days.