1 Mosebok 7
Swedish New Living Bible (Nya Levande Bibeln)
7 Slutligen kom den dag då Herren sa till Noa: Gå in i båten med hela din familj, för bland alla människor på jorden är det bara du som jag anser som rättfärdig.
2 Ta med dig djuren också, ett par av varje art. Men när det gäller de djur som jag har utvalt att använda till mat och offer, ska du ta sju par av varje
3 och sju par av varje slags fågel. På så sätt kommer allt skapat att bevaras och föröka sig på nytt, efter översvämningen.
4 Om en vecka ska jag sända ett regn som kommer att hålla på i fyrtio dagar och fyrtio nätter, och alla djur och fåglar och kräldjur, som jag har skapat, kommer att dö.
5 Noa gjorde därför som Herren hade befallt honom.
6 Han var 600 år när översvämningen kom.
7 Han gick ombord på båten med sin hustru, sina söner och deras hustrur, för att fly undan översvämningen.
8-9 Tillsammans med dem fanns alla djur, både de som kunde ätas och offras, och de som inte var avsedda för detta, och alla fåglar och kräldjur. De kom in i båten parvis, hanar och honor, precis som Gud hade befallt Noa.
10-12 En vecka senare, när Noa var 600 år, två månader och sjutton dagar gammal, började regnet komma i skyfall från himlen. Vatten från underjordiska källor vällde fram ur jorden under fyrtio dygn.
13 Men Noa hade samma dag gått in i båten med sin hustru och sina söner Sem, Ham och Jafet och deras hustrur.
14-15 Tillsammans med dem i båten fanns par av varje djurart, husdjur och vilda djur, dessutom kräldjur och fåglar av varje art.
16 De kom parvis, hane och hona, precis som Gud hade befallt. Sedan stängde Herren Gud dörren efter dem.
17 Under fyrtio dagar brusade vattenmassorna fram. De täckte marken och lyfte båten högt ovanför jorden.
18 Vattnet steg högre och högre, men båten flöt tryggt.
19-20 Slutligen täckte vattnet alla berg och stod flera meter över de högsta topparna.
21 Jordens alla levande varelser drunknade, fåglar, husdjur, vilda djur, kräldjur och hela mänskligheten.
22 Allt som andades och levde på torra land,
23 ja, allt liv på jorden utplånades. Gud förgjorde dem allesammans och lät bara Noa och dem som var med honom i båten leva.
24 Vattnet täckte jorden i 150 dagar.
Genesis 7
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 7
1 The Lord said to Noah, “Enter into the ark with your entire family, for I have seen that you, of all this generation, are just in my sight. 2 You are to take seven pairs of each type of clean animal with you, male and female. You are to take one pair of each type of unclean animal with you, male and female. 3 You are also to take seven pairs of birds of the air, male and female, with you, so that you may save every species of animal upon the earth. 4 In seven days I will make it begin to rain upon the earth, and it will rain for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”
5 Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him to do.
End of the Sinful World.[a] 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood began and the waters covered the earth. 7 Noah went into the ark with his sons, his wife, and the wives of his sons to escape from the waters of the flood. 8 The clean animals and the unclean animals, the birds, and the creatures that creep on the ground[b] 9 entered the ark two by two, male and female, along with Noah, just as the Lord had commanded. 10 After seven days, the waters of the flood covered the earth; 11 this happened in the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month. On that very day the springs of the great abyss and the floodgates of the heavens opened.[c] 12 The rains fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
13 That day Noah and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth entered the ark along with the wife of Noah and the three wives of his sons. 14 They entered along with all living creatures according to their kind, all cattle according to their kind, all creeping creatures according to their kind, and all birds according to their kind. 15 They went into the ark with Noah, two by two, every creature that had breath in it. 16 Those that came, male and female of every type of flesh, entered the ark as God had commanded. The Lord closed the door after them.
17 The flood lasted for forty days. The waters rose and lifted the ark off the earth as they increased. 18 The waters continued to swell and increased greatly on the earth until the ark floated upon the waters. 19 The waters rose more and more on the earth and covered all the highest mountains that are under the heavens. 20 The waters were fifteen cubits over the tops of the mountains that they covered.
21 Every living creature that moves upon the earth, every bird, cattle, wild animal, and creature that crawls upon the earth, and every single person on dry land died. 22 Every creature on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
23 This is how every living creature on earth was slain, every human being and every animal, every reptile and every bird of the air. They were blotted out of the earth, and only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.[d]
24 The waters covered the earth for one hundred and fifty days.
Footnotes
- Genesis 7:6 In this section the entrance into the ark and the description of the flood are repeated, first in the Yahwist version with inserts from the Priestly tradition (vv. 1-12) and then in the Priestly version with inserts from the Yahwist tradition (vv. 13-20); finally, there is a description of the effects of the flood that draws on both traditions (vv. 21-24). In the Yahwist tradition the flood is simply a torrential rain that continues for forty days (vv. 4, 12; 8:2b), while in the Priestly account, in keeping with the cosmic vision in Genesis 1:1-10, the waters are loosed both from the subterranean ocean and from the heavenly ocean (7:11; 8:2a).
According to the ideas of the ancients, in creating the world God separated the earth from the waters by creating the solid heavenly vault that divided the oceanic mass (the “abyss”) into an upper part beyond the heavens and a lower, earthly part, and by then commanding the lower waters to retreat, allowing the dry land to emerge. At this point, then, the lower, subterranean waters invade the earth anew through springs, while passages (“floodgates”) open in the heavenly vault and allow the upper waters to pour down. Thus God causes some effects of his creative work to cease. The waters that submerge the highest mountains on earth and destroy humankind and the animals effect a return of the universe to its primitive condition; the process is an image of the cosmic dimensions that sin, the rejection of God, has. - Genesis 7:8 This verse, which seems to be the work of the final editor, brings the Yahwist source, which distinguishes between clean and unclean animals, into harmony with the Priestly source, which has the animals in pairs.
- Genesis 7:11 According to the calendar used in the Priestly story of the flood, the year is divided into twelve months of about thirty days each, depending always on the cycle of the moon. The first month, equivalent to Nisan, is the month of the first lunar cycle in the spring (March-April).
- Genesis 7:23 The flood prefigures the final judgment (Mt 24:37-41) and salvation through baptism (1 Pet 3:20-21).
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