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1 The LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark with your whole household, because among this generation I've seen that you are a moral man.
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Next God said to Noah, "Now board the ship, you and all your family - out of everyone in this generation, you're the righteous one.
2 From every clean animal, take seven pairs, a male and his mate; and from every unclean animal, take one pair, a male and his mate;
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"Take on board with you seven pairs of every clean animal, a male and a female; one pair of every unclean animal, a male and a female;
3 and from the birds in the sky as well, take seven pairs, male and female, so that their offspring will survive throughout the earth.
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and seven pairs of every kind of bird, a male and a female, to insure their survival on Earth.
4 In seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will wipe off from the fertile land every living thing that I have made."
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In just seven days I will dump rain on Earth for forty days and forty nights. I'll make a clean sweep of everything that I've made."
5 Noah did everything the LORD commanded him.
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Noah did everything God commanded him.
6 Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters arrived on earth.
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Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters covered the Earth.
7 Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him entered the ark to escape the floodwaters.
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Noah and his wife and sons and their wives boarded the ship to escape the flood.
8 From the clean and unclean animals, from the birds and everything crawling on the ground,
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Clean and unclean animals, birds, and all the crawling creatures
9 two of each, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, just as God commanded Noah.
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came in pairs to Noah and to the ship, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.
10 After seven days, the floodwaters arrived on the earth.
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In seven days the floodwaters came.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day—on that day all the springs of the deep sea erupted, and the windows in the skies opened.
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It was the six-hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month that it happened: all the underground springs erupted and all the windows of Heaven were thrown open.
12 It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.
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Rain poured for forty days and forty nights.
13 That same day Noah, with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah's wife, and his sons' three wives, went into the ark.
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That's the day Noah and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, accompanied by his wife and his sons' wives, boarded the ship.
14 They and every kind of animal—every kind of livestock, every kind that crawls on the ground, every kind of bird—
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And with them every kind of wild and domestic animal, right down to all the kinds of creatures that crawl and all kinds of birds and anything that flies.
15 they came to Noah and entered the ark, two of every creature that breathes.
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They came to Noah and to the ship in pairs - everything and anything that had the breath of life in it,
16 Male and female of every creature went in, just as God had commanded him. Then the LORD closed the door behind them.
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male and female of every creature came just as God had commanded Noah. Then God shut the door behind him.
17 The flood remained on the earth for forty days. The waters rose, lifted the ark, and it rode high above the earth.
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The flood continued forty days and the waters rose and lifted the ship high over the Earth.
18 The waters rose and spread out over the earth. The ark floated on the surface of the waters.
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The waters kept rising, the flood deepened on the Earth, the ship floated on the surface.
19 The waters rose even higher over the earth; they covered all of the highest mountains under the sky.
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The flood got worse until all the highest mountains were covered
20 The waters rose twenty-three feet high, covering the mountains.
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- the high water mark reached twenty feet above the crest of the mountains.
21 Every creature took its last breath: the things crawling on the ground, birds, livestock, wild animals, everything swarming on the ground, and every human being.
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Everything died. Anything that moved - dead. Birds, farm animals, wild animals, the entire teeming exuberance of life - dead. And all people - dead.
22 Everything on dry land with life's breath in its nostrils died.
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Every living, breathing creature that lived on dry land died;
23 God wiped away every living thing that was on the fertile land—from human beings to livestock to crawling things to birds in the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those with him in the ark were left.
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he wiped out the whole works - people and animals, crawling creatures and flying birds, every last one of them, gone. Only Noah and his company on the ship lived.
24 The waters rose over the earth for one hundred fifty days.
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The floodwaters took over for 150 days.