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1 When everything was ready, the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the boat with all your family, for among all the people of the earth, I can see that you alone are righteous.
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The LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark with your whole household, because among this generation I've seen that you are a moral man.
2 Take with you seven pairs—male and female—of each animal I have approved for eating and for sacrifice, and take one pair of each of the others.
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From every clean animal, take seven pairs, a male and his mate; and from every unclean animal, take one pair, a male and his mate;
3 Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird. There must be a male and a female in each pair to ensure that all life will survive on the earth after the flood.
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and from the birds in the sky as well, take seven pairs, male and female, so that their offspring will survive throughout the earth.
4 Seven days from now I will make the rains pour down on the earth. And it will rain for forty days and forty nights, until I have wiped from the earth all the living things I have created.”
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In seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will wipe off from the fertile land every living thing that I have made."
5 So Noah did everything as the LORD commanded him.
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Noah did everything the LORD commanded him.
6 Noah was 600 years old when the flood covered the earth.
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Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters arrived on earth.
7 He went on board the boat to escape the flood—he and his wife and his sons and their wives.
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Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him entered the ark to escape the floodwaters.
8 With them were all the various kinds of animals—those approved for eating and for sacrifice and those that were not—along with all the birds and the small animals that scurry along the ground.
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From the clean and unclean animals, from the birds and everything crawling on the ground,
9 They entered the boat in pairs, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.
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two of each, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, just as God commanded Noah.
10 After seven days, the waters of the flood came and covered the earth.
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After seven days, the floodwaters arrived on the earth.
11 When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky.
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In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day—on that day all the springs of the deep sea erupted, and the windows in the skies opened.
12 The rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights.
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It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 That very day Noah had gone into the boat with his wife and his sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—and their wives.
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That same day Noah, with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah's wife, and his sons' three wives, went into the ark.
14 With them in the boat were pairs of every kind of animal—domestic and wild, large and small—along with birds of every kind.
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They and every kind of animal—every kind of livestock, every kind that crawls on the ground, every kind of bird—
15 Two by two they came into the boat, representing every living thing that breathes.
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they came to Noah and entered the ark, two of every creature that breathes.
16 A male and female of each kind entered, just as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD closed the door behind them.
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Male and female of every creature went in, just as God had commanded him. Then the LORD closed the door behind them.
17 For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper, covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth.
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The flood remained on the earth for forty days. The waters rose, lifted the ark, and it rode high above the earth.
18 As the waters rose higher and higher above the ground, the boat floated safely on the surface.
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The waters rose and spread out over the earth. The ark floated on the surface of the waters.
19 Finally, the water covered even the highest mountains on the earth,
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The waters rose even higher over the earth; they covered all of the highest mountains under the sky.
20 rising more than twenty-two feet above the highest peaks.
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The waters rose twenty-three feet high, covering the mountains.
21 All the living things on earth died—birds, domestic animals, wild animals, small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the people.
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Every creature took its last breath: the things crawling on the ground, birds, livestock, wild animals, everything swarming on the ground, and every human being.
22 Everything that breathed and lived on dry land died.
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Everything on dry land with life's breath in its nostrils died.
23 God wiped out every living thing on the earth—people, livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and the birds of the sky. All were destroyed. The only people who survived were Noah and those with him in the boat.
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God wiped away every living thing that was on the fertile land—from human beings to livestock to crawling things to birds in the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those with him in the ark were left.
24 And the floodwaters covered the earth for 150 days.
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The waters rose over the earth for one hundred fifty days.
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