⁵ Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that ^(A)every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ^6 (B)The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was ^(C)grieved ^[a]in His heart. ⁷ The Lord said, “^(D)I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the ^[b]sky; for ^(E)I am sorry that I have made them.” ⁸ But ^(F)Noah ^(G)found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

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 ^[a]time. ² You shall take ^[b]with you of every ^(B)clean animal ^[c]by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female; ³ also of the birds of the ^[d]sky, ^[e]by sevens, male and female, to keep ^[f]offspring alive on the face of all the earth. ⁴ For after ^(C)seven more days, I will send rain on the earth ^(D)forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land ^(E)every living thing that I have made.” ^5 (F)Noah did according to all that the Lord had commanded him.

⁶ Now Noah was ^(G)six hundred years old when the flood of water ^[g]came upon the earth. ⁷ Then ^(H)Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood. ^8 (I)Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that creeps on the ground, ⁹ there went into the ark to Noah ^[h]by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. ¹⁰ It came about after ^(J)the seven days, that the water of the flood ^[i]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 the same day all ^(L)the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the ^[j]floodgates of the sky were opened. ^12 (M)The rain ^[k]fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

¹³ On the very same day ^(N)Noah and Shem and 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 beast after its kind, and all the cattle after ^[l]their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, ^[m]all sorts of birds. ¹⁵ So they went into the ark to Noah, ^(O)by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life. ¹⁶ Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and the Lord closed it behind him.

¹⁷ Then the flood ^[n]came upon the earth for ^(P)forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth. ¹⁸ The water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark ^[o]floated on the ^[p]surface of the water. ¹⁹ The water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains ^[q]everywhere under the heavens were covered. ²⁰ The water prevailed fifteen ^[r]cubits higher, ^(Q)and the mountains were covered. ^21 (R)All flesh that ^[s]moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind; ²² of all that was on the dry land, all ^(S)in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died. ²³ Thus He blotted out ^[t]every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the ^[u]sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only ^(T)Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark. ^24 (U)The water prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.