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1 The LORD then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
1 Then Yahweh said to Noah, "Go--you and all your household--into the ark, for I have seen you [are] righteous before me in this generation.
2 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,
2 From all the clean animals you must take for yourself {seven pairs}, a male and its mate. And from the animals that [are] not clean [you must take] two, a male and its mate,
3 and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.
3 as well as from the birds of heaven {seven pairs}, male and female, {to keep their kind alive} on the face of the earth.
4 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.”
4 For {within seven days} I will send rain upon the earth [for] forty days and forty nights. And I will blot out all the living creatures that I have made from upon the face of the ground."
5 And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.
5 And Noah did according to all that Yahweh commanded him.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.
6 Noah {was six hundred years old} when the flood waters came upon the earth.
7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
7 And Noah and his sons and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.
8 Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground,
8 Of clean animals, and of animals which [are] not clean, and of the birds, and everything that creeps upon the ground,
9 male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.
9 {two of each} went to Noah, into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.
10 And it happened [that] after seven days the waters of the flood came over the earth.
11 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.
11 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month--on that day all the springs of the great deep were split open, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
12 And the rain came upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 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.
13 On this same day, Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark,
14 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.
14 they and all the living creatures according to their kind, and all the domesticated animals according to their kind, and all the creatures that creep upon the earth according to their kind, all the birds according to their kind, every winged creature.
15 Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.
15 And they came to Noah to the ark, {two of each}, from every living thing in which [was] the breath of life.
16 The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
16 And those that came, male and female, of every living thing, came as God had commanded him. And Yahweh shut the door behind him.
17 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.
17 And the flood came forty days and forty nights upon the earth. And the waters increased, and lifted the ark, and it rose up from the earth.
18 The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.
18 And the waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth. And the ark went upon the surface of the waters.
19 They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered.
19 And the waters prevailed {overwhelmingly} upon the earth, and they covered all the high mountains which were under the entire heaven.
20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.
20 {The waters swelled fifteen cubits above the mountains, covering them}.
21 Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.
21 And every living thing that moved on the earth perished--the birds, and the domesticated animals, and the wild animals, and everything that swarmed on the earth, and all humankind.
22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
22 Everything in whose nostrils [was] {the breath of life}, among all that [was] on dry land, died.
23 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.
23 And he blotted out every living thing upon the surface of the ground, from humankind, to animals, to creeping things, and to the birds of heaven; they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah and those who [were] with him in the ark remained.
24 The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.
24 And the waters prevailed over the earth one hundred and fifty days.
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