Noah and the Flood

7 Then Yahweh 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 of every ^(B)clean animal ^[b]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 ^[c]sky, ^[d]by sevens, male and female, to keep their seed 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)And Noah did according to all that Yahweh 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 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 [f]by twos they came to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. ¹⁰ Now it happened after ^(J)the seven days, that the water 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 this day all ^(L)the fountains of the great deep split open, and the ^[h]floodgates of the sky were opened. ^12 (M)Then the rain ^[i]came upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

¹³ On this very 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 ^[j]their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind—every ^[k]fowl, every winged creature. ¹⁵ So they came to Noah into the ark, ^(O)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 ^[l]came upon the earth for ^(P)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 ^[m]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 ^[n]fifteen cubits higher, ^(Q)and the mountains were covered. ^21 (R)And all flesh that ^[o]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 ^(S)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 ^[p]every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the ^[q]sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only ^(T)Noah remained, and those that were with him in the ark. ^24 (U)And the water prevailed upon the earth 150 days.