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7 And Noah with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
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And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,
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Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground,
9 two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.
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male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And after seven days the waters of the flood came on the earth.
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And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens 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 The rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
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And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 On the very same day Noah with his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons entered 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 wild animal of every kind, and all domestic animals of every kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every bird of every kind—every bird, every winged creature.
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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 They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there 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 those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the Lord shut him in.
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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 The flood continued forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above 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.
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