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11 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened:
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In 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.
12 And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
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And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 In the selfsame day Noe, and Sem, and Cham, and Japheth, his sons: his wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark.
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On 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.
14 They and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and every thing that moveth upon the earth, according to its kind, and every fowl according to its kind, all birds, and all that fly,
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They 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.
15 Went in to Noe into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein was the breath of life.
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Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.
16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in on the outside.
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The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth.
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For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.
18 For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled all on the face of the earth: and the ark was carried upon the waters.
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The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.
19 And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.
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They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered.
20 The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered.
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The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.
21 And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth: and all men.
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Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.
22 And all things wherein there is the breath of life on the earth, died.
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Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
23 And he destroyed all the substance that was upon the earth, from man even to beast, and the creeping things and fowls of the air: and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noe only remained, and they that were with him in the ark.
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Every 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.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
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The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.
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