Good News Translation GNT
English Standard Version ESV
1 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.
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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 are righteous before me in this generation.
2 Take with you seven pairs of each kind of ritually clean animal, but only one pair of each kind of unclean animal.
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Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate,
3 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.
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and seven pairs of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.
4 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."
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For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground."
5 And Noah did everything that the Lord commanded.
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And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came on the earth.
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Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth.
7 He and his wife, and his sons and their wives, went into the boat to escape the flood.
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And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
8 A male and a female of every kind of animal and bird, whether ritually clean or unclean,
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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 went into the boat with Noah, as God had commanded.
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two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.
10 Seven days later the flood came.
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And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.
11 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,
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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 and rain fell on the earth for forty days and nights.
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And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 On that same day Noah and his wife went into the boat with their three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.
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On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark,
14 With them went every kind of animal, domestic and wild, large and small, and every kind of bird.
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they and every beast, according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, according to its kind, and every bird, according to its kind, every winged creature.
15 A male and a female of each kind of living being went into the boat with Noah,
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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 as God had commanded. Then the Lord shut the door behind Noah.
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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 continued for forty days, and the water became deep enough for the boat to float.
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The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.
18 The water became deeper, and the boat drifted on the surface.
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The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters.
19 It became so deep that it covered the highest mountains;
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And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.
20 it went on rising until it was about twenty-five feet above the tops of the mountains.
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The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep.
21 Every living being on the earth died - every bird, every animal, and every person.
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And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind.
22 Everything on earth that breathed died.
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Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.
23 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.
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He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.
24 The water did not start going down for a hundred and fifty days.
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And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.