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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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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 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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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 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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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 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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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 So Noah did everything as the LORD 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 flood covered the earth.
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And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the 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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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 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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Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 They entered the boat in pairs, 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 After seven days, the waters of the flood came and covered the earth.
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And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon 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, 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 The rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights.
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And the rain was upon 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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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 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 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 Two by two they came into the boat, representing every living thing that breathes.
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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 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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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 For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper, covering the ground and lifting the boat high above 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 As the waters rose higher and higher above the ground, the boat floated safely 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 Finally, the water covered even the highest mountains on the earth,
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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 rising more than twenty-two feet above the highest peaks.
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Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
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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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 Everything that breathed and 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 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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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 And the floodwaters covered the earth for 150 days.
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And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
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