Genesis 6; Genesis 7; Genesis 8

Genesis 6

1 It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

2 that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.

3 The LORD said, "My spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."

4 The Nefilim were in the eretz in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came to men's daughters. They bore children to them: the same were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

5 The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the eretz, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6 The LORD was sorry that he had made man on the eretz, and it grieved him in his heart.

7 The LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."

8 But Noach found favor in the LORD's eyes.

9 This is the history of the generations of Noach. Noach was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noach walked with God.

10 Noach became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Yefet.

11 The eretz was corrupt before God, and the eretz was filled with violence.

12 God saw the eretz, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the eretz.

13 God said to Noach, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the eretz is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the eretz.

14 Make a teivah of gofer wood. You shall make rooms in the teivah, and shall seal it inside and outside with kofer.

15 This is how you shall make it. The length of the teivah will be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

16 You shall make a roof in the teivah, and to a cubit shall you finish it upward. You shall set the door of the teivah in the side of it. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.

17 I, even, I do bring the flood of waters on this eretz, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the eretz will die.

18 But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the teivah, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

19 Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the teivah, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

20 Of the birds after their kind, of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.

21 Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to you; and it will be for food for you, and for them.

22 Thus Noach did. According to all that God commanded him, so he did.

Genesis 7

1 The LORD said to Noach, "Come with all of your household into the teivah, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

2 You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.

3 Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the eretz.

4 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the eretz for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."

5 Noach did everything that the LORD commanded him.

6 Noach was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the eretz.

7 Noach went into the teivah with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.

8 Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground

9 went by pairs to Noach into the teivah, male and female, as God commanded Noach.

10 It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the eretz.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noach's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.

12 The rain was on the eretz forty days and forty nights.

13 In the same day Noach, and Shem, Ham, and Yefet, the sons of Noach, and Noach's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the teivah;

14 they, and every animal after its kind, all the cattle after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the eretz after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

15 They went to Noach into the teivah, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.

16 Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.

17 The flood was forty days on the eretz. The waters increased, and lifted up the teivah, and it was lifted up above the eretz.

18 The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the eretz; and the teivah floated on the surface of the waters.

19 The waters prevailed exceedingly on the eretz. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

20 The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.

21 All flesh died that moved on the eretz, including birds, cattle, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the eretz, and every man.

22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, cattle, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the eretz. Only Noach was left, and those who were with him in the teivah.

24 The waters prevailed on the eretz one hundred fifty days.

Genesis 8

1 God remembered Noach, all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the teivah; and God made a wind to pass over the eretz. The waters subsided.

2 The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

3 The waters receded from off the eretz continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.

4 The teivah rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.

5 The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

6 It happened at the end of forty days, that Noach opened the window of the teivah which he had made,

7 and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from off the eretz.

8 He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the surface of the ground,

9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the teivah; for the waters were on the surface of the whole eretz. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the teivah.

10 He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the teivah.

11 The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noach knew that the waters were abated from off the eretz.

12 He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.

13 It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the eretz. Noach removed the covering of the teivah, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.

14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the eretz was dry.

15 God spoke to Noach, saying,

16 "Go forth from the teivah, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

17 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps on the eretz; that they may breed abundantly in the eretz, and be fruitful, and multiply on the eretz."

18 Noach went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.

19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the eretz, after their families, went forth out of the teivah.

20 Noach built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

21 The LORD smelled the sweet savor. The LORD said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.

22 While the eretz remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."