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Genesis 7

    ²Of every clean beast you shall receive and take with you seven pairs, the male and his mate, and of beasts that are not clean a pair of each kind, the male and his mate,^(B)

    ³Also of the birds of the air seven pairs, the male and the female, to keep seed [their kind] alive over all the earth or land.

    ⁴For in seven days I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living substance and thing that I have made I will destroy, blot out, and wipe away from the face of the earth.

    ⁵And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.^(C)

    ⁶Noah was 600 years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth or land.

    ⁷And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.^(D)

    ⁸Of ^[a]clean animals and of animals that are not clean, and of birds and fowls, and of everything that creeps on the ground,

    ⁹There went in two and two with Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

    ¹⁰And after the seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth or land.

    ¹¹In the year 600 of Noah's life, in the seventeenth day of the second month, that same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up and burst forth, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened.

    ¹²And it rained upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

    ¹³On the very same day Noah and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark,

    ¹⁴They and every [wild] beast according to its kind, all the livestock according to their kinds, every moving thing that creeps on the land according to its kind, and every fowl according to its kind, every winged thing of every sort.

    ¹⁵And they went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there were the breath and spirit of life.

    ¹⁶And they that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded [Noah]; and the Lord shut him in and closed [the door] round about him.

    ¹⁷The flood [that is, the downpour of rain] was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased and bore up the ark, and it was lifted [high] above the land.

    ¹⁸And the waters became mighty and increased greatly upon the land, and the ark went [gently floating] upon the surface of the waters.

    ¹⁹And the waters prevailed so exceedingly and were so mighty upon the earth that all the high hills under the whole sky were covered.

    ²⁰[In fact] the waters became fifteen cubits higher, as the high hills were covered.

    ²¹And all flesh ceased to breathe that moved upon the earth--fowls and birds, [tame] animals, [wild] beasts, all swarming and creeping things that swarm and creep upon the land, and all mankind.

    ²²Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils were the breath and spirit of life died.

    ²³God destroyed (blotted out) every living thing that was upon the face of the earth; man and animals and the creeping things and the birds of the heavens were destroyed (blotted out) from the land. Only Noah remained alive, and those who were with him in the ark.^(E)

    ²⁴And the waters prevailed [mightily] upon the earth or land 150 days (five months).

Genesis 8

    ²Also the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the gushing rain from the sky was checked,

    ³And the waters receded from the land continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had diminished.

    ⁴On the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat [in Armenia].

    ⁵And the waters continued to diminish until the tenth month; on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the high hills were seen.

    ⁶At the end of [another] forty days Noah opened a window of the ark which he had made

    ⁷And sent forth a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters were dried up from the land.

    ⁸Then he sent forth a dove to see if the waters had decreased from the surface of the ground.

    ⁹But the dove found no resting-place on which to roost, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were [yet] on the face of the whole land. So he put forth his hand and drew her to him into the ark.

    ¹⁰He waited another seven days and again sent forth the dove out of the ark.

    ¹¹And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a newly sprouted and freshly plucked olive leaf! So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the land.

    ¹²Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, but she did not return to him any more.

    ¹³In the year 601 [of Noah's life], on the first day of the first month, the waters were drying up from the land. And Noah ^[b]removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was drying.

    ¹⁴And on the twenty-seventh day of the second month the land was entirely dry.

    ¹⁵And God spoke to Noah, saying,

    ¹⁶Go forth from the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives with you.

    ¹⁷Bring forth every living thing that is with you of all flesh--birds and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the ground--that they may breed abundantly on the land and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.

    ¹⁸And Noah went forth, and his wife and his sons and their wives with him [after being in the ark one year and ten days].

    ¹⁹Every beast, every creeping thing, every bird--and whatever moves on the land--went forth by families out of the ark.

    ²⁰And Noah built an altar to the Lord and took of every clean [four-footed] animal and of every clean fowl or bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

    ²¹When the Lord smelled the pleasing odor [a scent of satisfaction to His heart], the Lord said to Himself, I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination (the strong desire) of man's heart is evil and wicked from his youth; neither will I ever again smite and destroy every living thing, as I have done.

    ²²While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Genesis 9

    ²And the fear of you and the dread and terror of you shall be upon every beast of the land, every bird of the air, all that creeps upon the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are delivered into your hand.

    ³Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green vegetables and plants, I give you everything.

    ⁴But you shall not eat flesh with the life of it, which is its blood.

    ⁵And surely for your lifeblood I will require an accounting; from every beast I will require it; and from man, from every man [who spills another's lifeblood] I will require a reckoning.

    ⁶Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God He made man.

    ⁷And you, be fruitful and multiply; bring forth abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.

    ⁸Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

    ⁹Behold, I establish My covenant or pledge with you and with your descendants after you

    ¹⁰And with every living creature that is with you--whether the birds, the livestock, or the wild beasts of the earth along with you, as many as came out of the ark--every animal of the earth.

    ¹¹I will establish My covenant or pledge with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood; neither shall there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth and make it corrupt.

    ¹²And God said, This is the token of the covenant (solemn pledge) which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:

    ¹³I set My bow [rainbow] in the cloud, and it shall be a token or sign of a covenant or solemn pledge between Me and the earth.

    ¹⁴And it shall be that when I bring clouds over the earth and the bow [rainbow] is seen in the clouds,

    ¹⁵I will [earnestly] remember My covenant or solemn pledge which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy and make all flesh corrupt.

    ¹⁶When the bow [rainbow] is in the clouds and I look upon it, I will [earnestly] remember the everlasting covenant or pledge between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

    ¹⁷And God said to Noah, This [rainbow] is the token or sign of the covenant or solemn pledge which I have established between Me and all flesh upon the earth.

    ¹⁸The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan [born later].

    ¹⁹These are the three sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was overspread and stocked with inhabitants.

    ²⁰And Noah began to cultivate the ground, and he planted a vineyard.

    ²¹And he drank of the wine and became drunk, and he was uncovered and lay naked in his tent.

    ²²And Ham, the father of Canaan, glanced at and saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.

    ²³So Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it upon the shoulders of both, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they did not see their father's nakedness.

    ²⁴When Noah awoke from his wine, and knew the thing which his youngest son had done to him,

    ²⁵He exclaimed, Cursed be Canaan! He shall be the ^[c]servant of servants to his brethren!^(F)

    ²⁶He also said, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem! And blessed by the Lord my God be Shem! And let Canaan be his servant.

    ²⁷May God enlarge Japheth; and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.

    ²⁸And Noah lived after the flood 350 years.

    ²⁹All the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.

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Matthew 3

    ²And saying, Repent (^[a]think differently; change your mind, regretting your sins and changing your conduct), for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

    ³This is he who was mentioned by the prophet Isaiah when he said, The voice of one crying in the wilderness (shouting in the desert), Prepare the road for the Lord, make His highways straight (level, ^[b]direct).^(A)

    ⁴This same John's garments were made of camel's hair, and he wore a leather girdle about his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.^(B)

    ⁵Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the country round about the Jordan went out to him;

    ⁶And they were baptized in the Jordan by him, confessing their sins.

    ⁷But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee and escape from the wrath and indignation [of God against disobedience] that is coming?

    ⁸Bring forth fruit that is consistent with repentance [let your lives prove your change of heart];

    ⁹And do not presume to say to yourselves, We have Abraham for our forefather; for I tell you, God is able to raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones!

    ¹⁰And already the ax is lying at the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

    ¹¹I indeed baptize you ^[c]in (with) water ^[d]because of repentance [that is, because of your ^[e]changing your minds for the better, heartily amending your ways, with abhorrence of your past sins]. But He Who is coming after me is mightier than I, Whose sandals I am not worthy or fit to take off or carry; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

    ¹²His winnowing fan (shovel, fork) is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear out and clean His threshing floor and gather and store His wheat in His barn, but the chaff He will burn up with fire that cannot be put out.

    ¹³Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John to be baptized by him.

    ¹⁴But John ^[f]protested strenuously, having in mind to prevent Him, saying, It is I who have need to be baptized by You, and do You come to me?

    ¹⁵But Jesus replied to him, ^[g]Permit it just now; for this is the fitting way for [both of] us to fulfill all righteousness [that is, to ^[h]perform completely whatever is right]. Then he permitted Him.

    ¹⁶And when Jesus was baptized, He went up at once out of the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he [John] saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on Him.

    ¹⁷And behold, a voice from heaven said, This is My Son, My Beloved, in Whom I delight!^(C)