The Bible in Basic English BBE
Good News Translation GNT
1 And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.
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The Lord said to Noah, "Go into the boat with your whole family; I have found that you are the only one in all the world who does what is right.
2 Of every clean beast you will take seven males and seven females, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, the male and his female;
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Take with you seven pairs of each kind of ritually clean animal, but only one pair of each kind of unclean animal.
3 And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.
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Take also seven pairs of each kind of bird. Do this so that every kind of animal and bird will be kept alive to reproduce again on the earth.
4 For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth.
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Seven days from now I am going to send rain that will fall for forty days and nights, in order to destroy all the living beings that I have made."
5 And Noah did everything which the Lord said he was to do.
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And Noah did everything that the Lord commanded.
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.
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Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came on the earth.
7 And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.
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He and his wife, and his sons and their wives, went into the boat to escape the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth,
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A male and a female of every kind of animal and bird, whether ritually clean or unclean,
9 In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said.
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went into the boat with Noah, as God had commanded.
10 And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.
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Seven days later the flood came.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;
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When Noah was six hundred years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month all the outlets of the vast body of water beneath the earth burst open, all the floodgates of the sky were opened,
12 And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
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and rain fell on the earth for forty days and nights.
13 On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark;
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On that same day Noah and his wife went into the boat with their three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.
14 And with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every sort of thing which goes on the earth, and every sort of bird.
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With them went every kind of animal, domestic and wild, large and small, and every kind of bird.
15 They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.
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A male and a female of each kind of living being went into the boat with Noah,
16 Male and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and the ark was shut by the Lord.
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as God had commanded. Then the Lord shut the door behind Noah.
17 And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.
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The flood continued for forty days, and the water became deep enough for the boat to float.
18 And the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters.
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The water became deeper, and the boat drifted on the surface.
19 And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered.
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It became so deep that it covered the highest mountains;
20 The waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all the mountains were covered.
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it went on rising until it was about twenty-five feet above the tops of the mountains.
21 And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man.
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Every living being on the earth died - every bird, every animal, and every person.
22 Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end.
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Everything on earth that breathed died.
23 Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.
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The Lord destroyed all living beings on the earth - human beings, animals, and birds. The only ones left were Noah and those who were with him in the boat.
24 And the waters were over the earth a hundred and fifty days.
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The water did not start going down for a hundred and fifty days.
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Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.