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1 ADONAI said to Noach, "Come into the ark, you and all your household; for I have seen that you alone in this generation are righteous before me.
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And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.
2 Of every clean animal you are to take seven couples, and of the animals that are not clean, one couple;
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Of every clean beast you will take seven males and seven females, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, the male and his female;
3 also of the birds in the air take seven couples - in order to preserve their species throughout the earth.
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And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.
4 For in seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; I will wipe out every living thing that I have made from the face of the earth."
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For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth.
5 Noach did all that ADONAI ordered him to do.
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And Noah did everything which the Lord said he was to do.
6 Noach was 600 years old when the water flooded the earth.
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And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.
7 Noach went into the ark with his sons, his wife and his sons' wives, because of the floodwaters.
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And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.
8 Of clean animals, of animals that are not clean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,
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Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth,
9 couples, male and female, went in to Noach in the ark, as God had ordered Noach.
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In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said.
10 After seven days the water flooded the earth.
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And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.
11 On the seventeenth day of the second month of the 600th year of Noach's life all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of the sky were opened.
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In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;
12 It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.
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And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
13 On that same day Noach entered the ark with Shem, Ham and Yefet the sons of Noach, Noach's wife and the three wives of his sons accompanying them;
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On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark;
14 they, and every animal of every species, all the livestock of every species, every animal that creeps on the ground of every species, and every bird of every species - all sorts of winged creatures.
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And with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every sort of thing which goes on the earth, and every sort of bird.
15 They went in to Noach in the ark, couples from every kind of living thing that breathes.
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They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.
16 Those that entered went in, male and female, from every kind of living being, as God had ordered him; and ADONAI shut him inside.
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Male and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and the ark was shut by the Lord.
17 The flood was forty days on the earth; the water grew higher and floated the ark, so that it was lifted up off the earth.
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And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.
18 The water overflowed the earth and grew deeper, until the ark floated on the surface of the water.
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And the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters.
19 The water overpowered the earth mightily; all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered;
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And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered.
20 the water covered the mountains by more than twenty-two-and-a-half feet.
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The waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all the mountains were covered.
21 All living beings that moved on the earth perished - birds, livestock, other animals, insects, and every human being,
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And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man.
22 everything in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life; whatever was on dry land died.
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Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end.
23 He wiped out every living thing on the surface of the ground - not only human beings, but livestock, creeping animals and birds in the air. They were wiped out from the earth; only Noach was left, along with those who were with him in the ark.
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Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.
24 The water held power over the earth for 150 days.
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And the waters were over the earth a hundred and fifty days.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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