Common English Bible w/ Apocrypha CEBA
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2 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;
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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 from the birds in the sky as well, take seven pairs, male and female, so that their offspring will survive throughout 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 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."
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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 Noah did everything the LORD commanded him.
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And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.
6 Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters arrived on earth.
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Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.
7 Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him entered the ark to escape the floodwaters.
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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 From the clean and unclean animals, from the birds and everything crawling 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 of each, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, just as God commanded Noah.
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male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.
10 After seven days, the floodwaters arrived 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—on that day all the springs of the deep sea erupted, and the windows in the skies 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 It rained upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
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And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
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