Génesis 7
Nueva Biblia de las Américas
Noé entra en el arca
7 Entonces el Señor dijo a Noé: «Entra en el arca tú y todos los de tu casa[a]; porque he visto que solo tú eres justo(A) delante de Mí en esta generación. 2 De todo animal limpio tomarás contigo[b] siete parejas, el macho y su hembra; y de todo animal que no es limpio, dos, el macho y su hembra(B). 3 También de las aves del cielo, siete parejas, macho y hembra, para conservar viva la especie[c] sobre la superficie de toda la tierra.
4 »Porque dentro de siete días Yo haré llover sobre la tierra(C) cuarenta días y cuarenta noches(D), y borraré de la superficie de la tierra a todo ser viviente[d] que he creado[e](E)». 5 Y Noé hizo conforme a todo lo que el Señor le había mandado(F).
El diluvio
6 Noé tenía 600 años(G) cuando las aguas del diluvio vinieron[f] sobre la tierra. 7 Entonces Noé entró en el arca(H), y con él sus hijos, su mujer y las mujeres de sus hijos, a causa de las aguas del diluvio. 8 De los animales limpios y de los animales que no son limpios, de las aves y de todo lo que se arrastra sobre la tierra(I), 9 entraron de dos en dos con[g] Noé en el arca, macho y hembra, como Dios había ordenado a Noé.
10 Aconteció que a los siete días las aguas del diluvio(J) vinieron[h] sobre la tierra. 11 El año 600 de la vida de Noé(K), el mes segundo, a los diecisiete días del mes, en ese mismo día se rompieron todas las fuentes del gran abismo, y las compuertas[i] del cielo fueron abiertas(L). 12 Y cayó[j] la lluvia sobre la tierra por cuarenta días y cuarenta noches(M).
13 En ese mismo día entró Noé en el arca, con Sem, Cam y Jafet, hijos de Noé, la mujer de Noé y las tres mujeres de sus hijos con ellos(N). 14 También entró toda[k] fiera según su especie, todo ganado según su especie, todo reptil que se arrastra sobre la tierra según su especie, y toda ave según su especie, aves de toda clase[l]. 15 Entraron, pues, con[m] Noé en el arca de dos en dos de toda carne[n](O) en que había aliento de vida; 16 los que entraron, macho y hembra de toda carne, entraron como Dios se lo había mandado. Después el Señor cerró la puerta detrás de Noé[o].
17 Entonces vino[p] el diluvio sobre la tierra por cuarenta días(P), y las aguas crecieron y alzaron el arca, y esta se elevó sobre la tierra. 18 Las aguas aumentaron y crecieron mucho sobre la tierra, y el arca flotaba[q] sobre la superficie[r] de las aguas. 19 Las aguas continuaron aumentando más y más sobre la tierra, y fueron cubiertos todos los altos montes que hay debajo de todos los cielos. 20 Las aguas subieron 15 codos (6.75 metros) por encima de los montes(Q) después que[s] habían sido cubiertos.
21 Y pereció toda carne que se mueve sobre la tierra: aves, ganados, bestias, y todo lo que se mueve sobre la tierra, y todo ser humano(R). 22 Todo aquello en cuya nariz había aliento de espíritu de vida(S), todo lo que había sobre la tierra firme, murió. 23 El Señor exterminó, pues, todo ser viviente[t] que había sobre la superficie de la tierra. Desde el hombre hasta los ganados, los reptiles y las aves del cielo, fueron exterminados de la tierra. Solo quedó Noé y los que estaban con él en el arca(T). 24 Las aguas prevalecieron sobre la tierra 150 días(U).
Footnotes
- 7:1 Lit. toda tu casa.
- 7:2 Lit. a ti.
- 7:3 Lit. simiente.
- 7:4 Lit. toda existencia.
- 7:4 Lit. hecho.
- 7:6 Lit. fue.
- 7:9 Lit. a.
- 7:10 Lit. fueron o acontecieron.
- 7:11 O ventanas.
- 7:12 Lit. fue.
- 7:14 Lit. ellos y toda.
- 7:14 Lit. toda ave, toda ala.
- 7:15 Lit. a.
- 7:15 O todo ser viviente.
- 7:16 Lit. él.
- 7:17 Lit. fue.
- 7:18 Lit. iba.
- 7:18 Lit. faz.
- 7:20 Lit. y.
- 7:23 Lit. toda existencia.
Genesis 7
The Voice
7 Eternal One (to Noah): It’s time! Go into the ark now. Take your entire household with you, because I see that you are the only one in this generation who lives right before Me. 2 Take the animals with you. Take seven pairs of all ritually acceptable animals, both the male and female; and take one pair of any animal that isn’t acceptable, both the male and female. 3 And take seven pairs of the birds of the sky, too, also male and female, so that we can keep each kind alive on the earth. 4 Seven days from now, I will send a massive rain to cover the earth. The rain will last 40 days and 40 nights, and every living thing I have made will be wiped off the face of the earth.
In distinguishing between animals that are ritually acceptable and unacceptable, God is anticipating the instructions He will give His people later regarding holiness and purity (Leviticus 11:1–47; Deuteronomy 14:4–20). Some animals are ritually acceptable for sacrifices, so they are suitable for food. Other animals are not to be offered to God or eaten. Ultimately, what enters human bodies matters to God; after all He made them.
5 Noah did everything the Eternal One asked him to do.
6 Noah was 600 years old when the flood waters swept over the earth. 7 Noah and his wife, his sons and their wives, all went into the ark in order to escape the waters of the flood. 8 Noah made sure to take along all of the animals (both ritually acceptable and unacceptable), the birds, and all the small creeping creatures 9 in pairs by males and females, just as God had told him to do. They all went into the ark with him, two by two. 10 After seven days, the rains began and waters flooded the earth.
11 On the 17th day of the 2nd month in Noah’s 600th year, all of the subterranean waters erupted from the depths of the earth and burst skyward, covering the land. The casements of the heavens cracked open, 12 dousing heavy rains over the watery earth for 40 days and 40 nights.
13 On the same day, Noah, his wife, his sons (Shem, Ham, and Japheth), and his sons’ wives went into the ark, and all were secured within it. 14 Inside the ark they had with them all sorts of wild animals, domesticated animals, small creeping creatures, and all kinds of birds, that is, every winged creature. 15 All of them went along into the ark to Noah in pairs—all flesh into which God had breathed the breath of life. 16 All those in the ark, males and females of all living flesh, went in just as God had told them to do. And the Eternal One shut them all in for the duration of the flood.
17 The deluge continued for 40 days on the earth. 18 The waters kept rising until they lifted up the ark so it floated safely over the land; 19 the torrent continued to swell and increase in momentum until the highest mountain peaks beneath the heavens were covered. 20 In fact, the waters rose and pitched so forcefully over the earth that the mountain peaks disappeared beneath 22 feet of water. 21 And all flesh that moved upon the earth died out—birds, domesticated animals, wild animals, all of the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all human beings. 22 Everything and everyone on the dry land in which God had breathed the breath of life died. 23 God wiped out every living thing from the face of the earth. Every creature He had made—humans, animals, creeping things, and birds—was wiped off the surface of the earth. Only Noah was left and those with him inside the ark. 24 And the waters raged upon the earth for 150 days.
Genesis 7
King James Version
7 And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
5 And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him.
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.
17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
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