CHAPTER 7
Then the LORD
said
to Noah,
“Go
into
the ark,
you
and all
your family,
because
I have found
you
righteous
in this
generation.
You
are to take with you
seven
of every kind of
clean
animal,
a male
and its mate,
and two
of
every kind of
unclean
animal,
a male
and its mate,
and also
seven
of every kind of bird
of the air,
male
and female,
in order to preserve
their offspring
on
the face
of all
the earth.
For
seven
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 thing
I have made.”
And Noah
entered
the ark,
along with
his sons
and his wife
and his sons’
wives,
to escape
the waters
of the flood.
In
the six
hundredth
year
of Noah’s
life,
on the seventeenth
day
of the second
month,
all
the fountains
of the great
deep
burst forth,
and
the floodgates
of the heavens
were opened.
On that very
day
Noah
entered
the ark,
along with his sons
Shem,
Ham,
and Japheth,
and his
wife,
and the three
wives
of his sons—
And they entered,
the male
and female
of every
living thing,
as
God
had commanded
Noah.
Then the LORD
shut him in.
For forty
days
the flood
kept coming
on
the earth,
and the waters
rose
and lifted
the ark
high above
the earth.
So the waters
continued to surge
and rise
greatly
on
the earth,
and
the ark
floated on
the surface
of the waters.
Finally, the waters
completely
inundated
the earth,
so that all
the high
mountains
under
all
the heavens
were covered.
And every
creature
that had moved
upon
the earth
perished—
birds,
livestock,
animals,
every
creature that swarms
upon
the earth,
and all
mankind.
And every
living thing
on
the face
of the earth
was destroyed—
man
and
livestock,
crawling creatures
and birds
of the air;
they were blotted out
from
the earth,
and only
Noah
remained,
and those
with him
in the ark.