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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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The LORD then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
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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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,
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 also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout 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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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.”
5 And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him.
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And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
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Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on 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 and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
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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Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground,
9 two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.
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male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And after seven days the waters of the flood came on the earth.
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And after the seven days the floodwaters came on 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, 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.
12 The rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
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And rain fell on the earth 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 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.
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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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.
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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Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.
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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The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
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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For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above 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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The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.
19 The waters swelled so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered;
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They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered.
20 the waters swelled above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep.
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The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.
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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Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.
22 everything on dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.
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Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
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 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.
24 And the waters swelled on the earth for one hundred fifty days.
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The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.
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