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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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Then the Lord said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before me in this generation.
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 with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and its mate; and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and its mate;
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 the birds of the air also, male and female, to keep their kind alive on the face of all the 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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For in seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground."
5 Noah did everything the LORD commanded him.
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And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him.
6 Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters arrived on earth.
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Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on 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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And Noah with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
8 From the clean and unclean animals, from the birds and everything crawling on the ground,
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Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,
9 two of each, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, just as God commanded Noah.
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two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.
10 After seven days, the floodwaters arrived on the earth.
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And after seven days the waters of the flood came on the earth.
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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In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
12 It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.
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The rain fell on the earth 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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On the very same day Noah with his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons entered the ark,
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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they and every wild animal of every kind, and all domestic animals of every kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every bird of every kind—every bird, every winged creature.
15 they came to Noah and entered the ark, two of every creature that breathes.
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They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.
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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And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the Lord shut him in.
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 on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above 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 swelled and increased greatly on the earth; and the ark floated on the face of the waters.
19 The waters rose even higher over the earth; they covered all of the highest mountains under the sky.
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The waters swelled so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered;
20 The waters rose twenty-three feet high, covering the mountains.
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the waters swelled above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep.
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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And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all human beings;
22 Everything on dry land with life's breath in its nostrils died.
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everything on dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life 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 blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, human beings and animals and creeping things and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.
24 The waters rose over the earth for one hundred fifty days.
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And the waters swelled on the earth for one hundred fifty days.
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