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Genesis 7:1-5; Genesis 7:11-18
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Genesis 7:1-5
1
Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
2
Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate; and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate;
3
and seven pairs of the birds of the air also, male and female, to keep their kind alive upon the face of all the earth.
4
For in seven days I will send rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground."
5
And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Genesis 7:11-18
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.
12
And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13
On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark,
14
they and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every bird of every sort.
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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And they that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.
17
The flood continued forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.
18
The waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark floated on the face of the waters.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.