Genesis 7:11-24

Legacy Standard Bible

¹¹ In the ^(A)six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all ^(B)the fountains of the great deep split open, and the ^[a]floodgates of the sky were opened. ^12 (C)Then the rain ^[b]came upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

¹³ On this very day ^(D)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 ^[c]their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind—every ^[d]fowl, every winged creature. ¹⁵ So they came to Noah into the ark, ^(E)by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life. ¹⁶ And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and Yahweh closed it behind him.

¹⁷ Then the flood ^[e]came upon the earth for ^(F)forty days, and the water multiplied and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth. ¹⁸ And the water prevailed and multiplied greatly upon the earth, and the ark went on the ^[f]surface of the water. ¹⁹ And the water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered. ²⁰ The water prevailed ^[g]fifteen cubits higher, ^(G)and the mountains were covered. ^21 (H)And all flesh that ^[h]moved on the earth breathed its last, that is birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, as well as all mankind. ²² All ^(I)in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life—of all that was on the dry land—died. ²³ Thus He blotted out ^[i]every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the ^[j]sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only ^(J)Noah remained, and those that were with him in the ark. ^24 (K)And the water prevailed upon the earth 150 days.