Genesis 6; Genesis 7; Genesis 8

Genesis 6

1 And it happened [that], when humankind began to multiply on the face of the ground, daughters were born to them.

2 Then the sons of God saw the daughters of humankind, that they [were] beautiful. And they took for themselves wives from all that they chose.

3 And Yahweh said, "My Spirit shall not abide with humankind forever in that he [is] also flesh. And his days [shall be] one hundred and twenty years."

4 The Nephilim [were] upon the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God went into the daughters of humankind, and they bore children to them.

5 And Yahweh saw that the evil of humankind [was] great upon the earth, and every inclination of the thoughts of his heart [was] always only evil.

6 And Yahweh regretted that he had made humankind on the earth, and {he was grieved in his heart}.

7 And Yahweh said, "I will destroy humankind whom I created from upon the face of the earth, from humankind, to animals, to creeping things, and to the birds of heaven, for I regret that I have made them."

8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of Yahweh.

9 These [are] the generations of Noah. Noah [was] a righteous man, without defect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

10 And Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11 And the earth [was] corrupted before God, and the earth was filled [with] violence.

12 And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.

13 And God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh [has] come before me, for the earth was filled [with] violence because of them. Now, look, I [am going] to destroy them [along] with the earth.

14 Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood; you must make the ark [with] rooms, then you must cover it with pitch, inside and outside.

15 And this [is] how you must make it: the length of the ark, three hundred cubits; its width fifty cubits; its height, thirty cubits.

16 You must make a roof for the ark, and {finish it to a cubit above}. And [as for] the door of the ark, you must put [it] in its side. You must make it [with] a lower, second, and a third [deck].

17 And I, behold, I [am] about to bring the flood waters over the earth to destroy all flesh in which [is] the breath of life from under the heaven; everything that [is] on the earth shall perish.

18 And I will establish my covenant with you, and you must go into the ark--you, and your sons, and your wife, and the wives of your sons with you.

19 And of every living thing, from all flesh, you must bring two from every [kind] into the ark to keep [them] alive with you; they shall be male and female.

20 From the birds according to their kind, and from the animals according to their kind, from every creeping thing [on] the ground according to its kind--two from every kind shall come to you to keep [them] alive.

21 And [as for] you, take for yourself from every kind of food that is eaten. And you must gather [it] to yourself. And it shall be for you and for them for food."

22 And Noah did according to all that God commanded him; thus he did.

Genesis 7

1 Then Yahweh said to Noah, "Go--you and all your household--into the ark, for I have seen you [are] righteous before me in this generation.

2 From all the clean animals you must take for yourself {seven pairs}, a male and its mate. And from the animals that [are] not clean [you must take] two, a male and its mate,

3 as well as from the birds of heaven {seven pairs}, male and female, {to keep their kind alive} on the face of the earth.

4 For {within seven days} I will send rain upon the earth [for] forty days and forty nights. And I will blot out all the living creatures that I have made from upon the face of the ground."

5 And Noah did according to all that Yahweh commanded him.

6 Noah {was six hundred years old} when the flood waters came upon the earth.

7 And Noah and his sons and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.

8 Of clean animals, and of animals which [are] not clean, and of the birds, and everything that creeps upon the ground,

9 {two of each} went to Noah, into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

10 And it happened [that] after seven days the waters of the flood came over the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month--on that day all the springs of the great deep were split open, and the windows of heaven were opened.

12 And the rain came upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 On this same day, Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark,

14 they and all the living creatures according to their kind, and all the domesticated animals according to their kind, and all the creatures that creep upon the earth according to their kind, all the birds according to their kind, every winged creature.

15 And they came to Noah to the ark, {two of each}, from every living thing in which [was] the breath of life.

16 And those that came, male and female, of every living thing, came as God had commanded him. And Yahweh shut the door behind him.

17 And the flood came forty days and forty nights upon the earth. And the waters increased, and lifted the ark, and it rose up from the earth.

18 And the waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth. And the ark went upon the surface of the waters.

19 And the waters prevailed {overwhelmingly} upon the earth, and they covered all the high mountains which were under the entire heaven.

20 {The waters swelled fifteen cubits above the mountains, covering them}.

21 And every living thing that moved on the earth perished--the birds, and the domesticated animals, and the wild animals, and everything that swarmed on the earth, and all humankind.

22 Everything in whose nostrils [was] {the breath of life}, among all that [was] on dry land, died.

23 And he blotted out every living thing upon the surface of the ground, from humankind, to animals, to creeping things, and to the birds of heaven; they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah and those who [were] with him in the ark remained.

24 And the waters prevailed over the earth one hundred and fifty days.

Genesis 8

1 And God remembered Noah and all the wild animals, and all the domesticated animals that [were] with him in the ark. And God caused a wind to blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.

2 And the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the heavens was restrained.

3 And the waters receded from the earth {gradually}, and the waters abated at the end of one hundred and fifty days.

4 And the ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

5 And the waters {continued to recede} to the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.

6 And it happened [that] at the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made.

7 And he sent out a raven; {it went to and fro} until the waters were dried up from upon the earth.

8 And {he sent out a dove} to see [whether] the waters had subsided from upon the ground.

9 But the dove did not find a resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him into the ark, for the waters [were still] on the face of the earth. And he stretched out his hand and took her, and brought her to himself into the ark.

10 And he waited another seven days, and {again he sent out} the dove from the ark.

11 And the dove came to him {in the evening}, and behold, a freshly-picked olive tree leaf [was] in her mouth. And Noah knew that the waters had subsided from upon the earth.

12 And he waited {seven more days}, and he sent out the dove. But it did not return again to him.

13 And it happened that, in the six hundred and first year, in the first [month], on the first [day] of the month, the waters dried up from upon the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked. And behold, the face of the ground was dried up.

14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

15 And God spoke to Noah, saying:

16 "Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

17 Bring out with you all the living things which [are] with you, from all the living creatures--birds, and animals, and everything that creeps on the earth, and let them swarm on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth."

18 So Noah went out, with his sons and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him.

19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, [and] everything [that] moves upon the earth, according to its families, went out from the ark.

20 And Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and he took from all the clean animals and from all the clean birds, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

21 And Yahweh smelled the soothing fragrance, and Yahweh said {to himself}, "{Never again will I curse} the ground for the sake of humankind, because the inclination of the heart of humankind [is] evil from his youth. {Nor will I ever again destroy} all life as I have done.

22 {As long as the earth endures}, seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will not cease.