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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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And Hashem said unto Noach, Come thou and all thy bais into the tevah (ark); for thee have I found tzaddik before Me in dor hazeh.
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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Of every behemah hatehorah thou shalt take to thee by sevens; the male and his mate; and of behemah that are not tehorah by two, the male and his mate.
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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Of also Oph HaShomayim by sevens, the zachar and the nekevah; to keep zera alive upon the face of kol ha’aretz.
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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For shivah yamim from now, and I will cause it to rain upon ha’aretz arba’im yom and arba’im lailah; and every living creature that I have made will I wipe out from off the p’nei ha’adamah.
5 And Noah did everything which the Lord said he was to do.
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And Noach did according unto all that Hashem commanded him.
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.
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And Noach was shesh me’ot shanah when the mabbul waters were upon ha’aretz.
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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And Noach entered in, and his banim, and his isha, and nashim of his banim with him, into the tevah (ark), because of the waters of the mabbul.
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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Of behemah hatehorah, and of behemah that are not tehorah, and of haoph, and of every thing that creepeth upon ha’adamah,
9 In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said.
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There went in shnayim shnayim unto Noach into the tevah (ark), the zachar and the nekevah, as Elohim had commanded Noach.
10 And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.
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And it came to pass after shivat hayamim, that the waters of the mabbul were upon ha’aretz.
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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In the six hundredth year of Noach’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of Shomayim were opened.
12 And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
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And the geshem was upon ha’aretz arba’im yom and arba’im lailah.
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 very yom entered Noach, and Shem, and Cham, and Yephet, the bnei Noach, and Noach’s isha, and the three nashim of his banim with them, into the tevah (ark);
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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They, and every beast after its kind, and kol habehemah after their kind, and every remes that crawls upon ha’aretz after its kind, and kol haoph after its kind, every bird of every sort.
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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And they went in unto Noach into the tevah (ark), shnayim shnayim of kol habasar, wherein is the ruach chayyim.
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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And they that went in, went in zachar and nekevah of kol basar, as Elohim had commanded him; then Hashem shut him in.
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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And the mabbul was arba’im yom upon ha’aretz; and the waters increased, and lifted up the tevah (ark), and it rose above ha’aretz.
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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And the waters rose, and were increased greatly upon ha’aretz; and the tevah (ark) floated upon the face of the waters.
19 And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered.
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And the waters rose exceedingly upon ha’aretz; and all the high hills, that were under kol HaShomayim, were covered.
20 The waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all the mountains were covered.
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Fifteen cubits upward did the waters rise; and the harim were covered.
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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And kol basar perished that moved upon ha’aretz, both of Oph, and of Behemah, and of Beast, and of every Swarming Thing that swarms upon ha’aretz, and kol haadam;
22 Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end.
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All in whose nostrils was the ruach chayyim, of all that was in the dry land, perished.
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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And every living creature was wiped out which was upon the p’nei haadamah, both Adam, and Behemah, and the Remes, and the Oph HaShomayim; and they were wiped out from ha’aretz: and Noach only remained alive, and they that were with him in the tevah (ark).
24 And the waters were over the earth a hundred and fifty days.
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And the waters flooded upon ha’aretz a hundred and fifty days.
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