The Flood

7 Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be ^(A)righteous before Me in this generation. ² You shall take ^[a]with you ^[b]seven pairs of every ^(B)clean animal, a male and his female; and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and his female; ³ also of the birds of the sky, ^[c]seven pairs, male and female, to keep their ^[d]offspring alive on the face of all the earth. ⁴ For after ^(C)seven more days, I will send rain on the earth for ^(D)forty days and forty nights; and I will wipe out from the face of the land ^(E)every living thing that I have made.” ⁵ So ^(F)Noah acted in accordance with everything that the Lord had commanded him.

⁶ Now Noah was ^(G)six hundred years old when the flood of water ^[e]came upon the earth. ⁷ Then ^(H)Noah and his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the waters of the flood. ^8 (I)Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that crawls on the ground, ⁹ they all went into the ark to Noah ^[f]by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. ¹⁰ Now it came about after ^(J)the seven days, that the waters of the flood ^[g]came upon the earth. ¹¹ In the ^(K)six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all ^(L)the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the ^[h]floodgates of the sky were opened. ^12 (M)The rain ^[i]fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

¹³ On this very same day ^(N)Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark, ¹⁴ they and every animal according to its kind, and all the livestock according to ^[j]their kind, and every crawling thing that crawls on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, ^[k]all sorts of birds. ¹⁵ So they went into the ark to Noah, ^(O)by twos of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.