Good News Translation GNT
World English Bible WEB
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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Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ark, for I have seen your righteousness 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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You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.
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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Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface 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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In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."
5 And Noah did everything that the Lord commanded.
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Noah did everything that Yahweh 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 on 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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Noah went into the ark with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of 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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Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground
9 went into the boat with Noah, as God had commanded.
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went by pairs to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
10 Seven days later the flood came.
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It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on 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 the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.
12 and rain fell on the earth for forty days and nights.
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The rain was on 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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In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into 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 animal after its kind, all the cattle after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.
15 A male and a female of each kind of living being went into the boat with Noah,
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They went to Noah into the ark, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.
16 as God had commanded. Then the Lord shut the door behind Noah.
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Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Yahweh 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 was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ark, and it was lifted up 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 surface of the waters.
19 It became so deep that it covered the highest mountains;
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The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky 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 fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.
21 Every living being on the earth died - every bird, every animal, and every person.
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All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, cattle, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.
22 Everything on earth that breathed died.
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All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, 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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Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, cattle, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed 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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The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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