Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
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1 And the Lord God said to Noe, Enter thou and all thy family into the ark, for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
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The LORD then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
2 And of the clean cattle take in to thee sevens, male and female, and of the unclean cattle pairs male and female.
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Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate,
3 And of clean flying creatures of the sky sevens, male and female, and of all unclean flying creatures pairs, male and female, to maintain seed on all the earth.
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and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.
4 For yet seven days I bring rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will blot out every offspring which I have made from the face of all the earth.
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Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”
5 And Noe all things whatever the Lord God commanded him.
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And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.
6 And Noe was six hundred years old when the flood of water was upon the earth.
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Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.
7 And then went in Noe and his sons and his wife, and his sons' wives with him into the ark, because of the water of the flood.
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And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
8 And of clean flying creatures and of unclean flying creatures, and of clean cattle and of unclean cattle, and of all things that creep upon the earth,
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Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground,
9 pairs went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noe.
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male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after the seven days that the water of the flood came upon the earth.
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And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the abyss were broken up, and the flood-gates of heaven were opened.
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In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
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And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 On that very day entered Noe, Sem, Cham, Japheth, the sons of Noe, and the wife of Noe, and the three wives of his sons with him into the ark.
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On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.
14 And all the wild beasts after their kind, and all cattle after their kind, and every reptile moving itself on the earth after its kind, and every flying bird after its kind,
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They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings.
15 went in to Noe into the ark, pairs, male and female of all flesh in which is the breath of life.
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Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.
16 And they that entered went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded Noe, and the Lord God shut the ark outside of him.
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The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
17 And the flood was upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and the water abounded greatly and bore up the ark, and it was lifted on high from off the earth.
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For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.
18 And the water prevailed and abounded exceedingly upon the earth, and the ark was borne upon the water.
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The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.
19 And the water prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and covered all the high mountains which were under heaven.
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They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered.
20 Fifteen cubits upwards was the water raised, and it covered all the high mountains.
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The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.
21 And there died all flesh that moved upon the earth, of flying creatures and cattle, and of wild beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, and every man.
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Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.
22 And all things which have the breath of life, and whatever was on the dry land, died.
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Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
23 And blotted out every offspring which was upon the face of the earth, both man and beast, and reptiles, and birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth, and Noe was left alone, and those with him in the ark.
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Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.
24 And the water was raised over the earth an hundred and fifty days.
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The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.
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