King James Version KJV
Good News Translation GNT
1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
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.
2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
2
Take with you seven pairs of each kind of ritually clean animal, but only one pair of each kind of unclean animal.
3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
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.
4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of 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."
5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
5
And Noah did everything that the Lord commanded.
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
6
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came on the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
7
He and his wife, and his sons and their wives, went into the boat to escape the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
8
A male and a female of every kind of animal and bird, whether ritually clean or unclean,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
9
went into the boat with Noah, as God had commanded.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
10
Seven days later the flood came.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
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,
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
12
and rain fell on the earth for forty days and nights.
13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
13
On that same day Noah and his wife went into the boat with their three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.
14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
14
With them went every kind of animal, domestic and wild, large and small, and every kind of bird.
15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
15
A male and a female of each kind of living being went into the boat with Noah,
16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
16
as God had commanded. Then the Lord shut the door behind Noah.
17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
17
The flood continued for forty days, and the water became deep enough for the boat to float.
18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
18
The water became deeper, and the boat drifted on the surface.
19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
19
It became so deep that it covered the highest mountains;
20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
20
it went on rising until it was about twenty-five feet above the tops of the mountains.
21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
21
Every living being on the earth died - every bird, every animal, and every person.
22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
22
Everything on earth that breathed died.
23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
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.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
24
The water did not start going down for a hundred and fifty days.
The King James Version is in the public domain.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.