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1 Next God said to Noah, "Now board the ship, you and all your family - out of everyone in this generation, you're the righteous one.
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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.
2 "Take on board with you seven pairs of every clean animal, a male and a female; one pair of every unclean animal, a male and a female;
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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.
3 and seven pairs of every kind of bird, a male and a female, to insure their survival on Earth.
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Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
4 In just seven days I will dump rain on Earth for forty days and forty nights. I'll make a clean sweep of everything that I've made."
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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.
5 Noah did everything God commanded him.
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And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
6 Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters covered the Earth.
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And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 Noah and his wife and sons and their wives boarded the ship to escape the flood.
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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.
8 Clean and unclean animals, birds, and all the crawling creatures
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Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 came in pairs to Noah and to the ship, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.
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There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 In seven days the floodwaters came.
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And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 It was the six-hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month that it happened: all the underground springs erupted and all the windows of Heaven were thrown open.
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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.
12 Rain poured for forty days and forty nights.
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And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 That's the day Noah and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, accompanied by his wife and his sons' wives, boarded the ship.
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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;
14 And with them every kind of wild and domestic animal, right down to all the kinds of creatures that crawl and all kinds of birds and anything that flies.
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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.
15 They came to Noah and to the ship in pairs - everything and anything that had the breath of life in it,
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And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
16 male and female of every creature came just as God had commanded Noah. Then God shut the door behind him.
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And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
17 The flood continued forty days and the waters rose and lifted the ship high over the Earth.
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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.
18 The waters kept rising, the flood deepened on the Earth, the ship floated on the surface.
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And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
19 The flood got worse until all the highest mountains were covered
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And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
20 - the high water mark reached twenty feet above the crest of the mountains.
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Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
21 Everything died. Anything that moved - dead. Birds, farm animals, wild animals, the entire teeming exuberance of life - dead. And all people - dead.
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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:
22 Every living, breathing creature that lived on dry land died;
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All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
23 he wiped out the whole works - people and animals, crawling creatures and flying birds, every last one of them, gone. Only Noah and his company on the ship lived.
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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.
24 The floodwaters took over for 150 days.
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And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
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