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The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 Then the Lord said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before me in this generation.
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And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.
2 Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and its mate; and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and its mate;
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Of every clean beast you will take seven males and seven females, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, the male and his female;
3 and seven pairs of the birds of the air also, male and female, to keep their kind alive on the face of all the earth.
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And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.
4 For in seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground."
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For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth.
5 And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him.
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And Noah did everything which the Lord said he was to do.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
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And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.
7 And Noah with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
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And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.
8 Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,
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Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth,
9 two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.
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In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said.
10 And after seven days the waters of the flood came on the earth.
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And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
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In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;
12 The rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
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And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
13 On the very same day Noah with his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons entered the ark,
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On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark;
14 they and every wild animal of every kind, and all domestic animals of every kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every bird of every kind—every bird, every winged creature.
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And with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every sort of thing which goes on the earth, and every sort of bird.
15 They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.
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They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.
16 And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the Lord shut him in.
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Male and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and the ark was shut by the Lord.
17 The flood continued forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.
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And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.
18 The waters swelled and increased greatly on the earth; and the ark floated on the face of the waters.
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And the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters.
19 The waters swelled so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered;
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And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered.
20 the waters swelled above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep.
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The waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all the mountains were covered.
21 And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all human beings;
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And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man.
22 everything on dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.
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Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end.
23 He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, human beings and animals and creeping things and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.
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Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.
24 And the waters swelled on the earth for one hundred fifty days.
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And the waters were over the earth a hundred and fifty days.
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