Genesis 6:9-8:19

Jubilee Bible 2000

⁹ These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

¹⁰ And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

¹¹ ¶ The earth corrupted itself before God, and the earth filled itself with violence.

¹² And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.

¹³ ¶ And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

¹⁴ Make thee an ark of cedar trees; rooms shalt thou make in the ark and shalt reconcile it within and without covering it over with pitch. {Heb. ransom or atonement}

¹⁵ And this is the fashion of which thou shalt make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

¹⁶ A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

¹⁷ And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, in which is the spirit of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

¹⁸ But with thee I will establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife and thy sons’ wives with thee.

¹⁹ And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

²⁰ Of fowls after their kind and of beasts after their kind, of every animal of the earth after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

²¹ And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee and for them.

²² ¶ Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

7 ¶ And the LORD said unto Noah, Enter thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

² Of every clean animal thou shalt take to thee seven pairs, the male and his female; but of animals that are not clean, two, the male and his female.

³ Of fowls also of the heavens by seven pairs, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

⁴ For yet in seven days, I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every substance that I have made I will 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 animals and of animals that are not clean and of fowls and of every thing that moves upon the earth,

⁹ there went in two by 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 the heavens were opened.

¹² And there was rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

¹³ ¶ In that same day 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 into the ark,

¹⁴ they and every animal after its kind and all the beasts after their kind and every creeping thing that moves upon the earth after its kind and every fowl after its kind, every bird, every thing with wings.

¹⁵ And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two by two of all flesh in which is the spirit of life.

¹⁶ And those 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 multiplied and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

¹⁸ And the waters prevailed and multiplied 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 mountains that were under all the heavens 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 beasts and of animals and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth and every man;

²² all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life of all that was in the dry land died.

²³ And every substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man and cattle and the animals and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth, and only Noah remained alive and those that were with him in the ark.

²⁴ And the waters prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.

8 ¶ And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters ceased;

² the fountains also of the deep and the windows of the heavens were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

³ and the waters turned back and forth upon the earth, and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

⁴ ¶ And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

⁵ And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

⁶ ¶ And it came to pass at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made,

⁷ and he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

⁸ Also he sent forth a dove from him to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground,

⁹ but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were still upon the face of the whole earth. Then he put forth his hand and took her and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

¹⁰ And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark,

¹¹ and the dove came in to him in the evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off, so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

¹² And he stayed yet other seven days and sent forth the dove, which returned not again unto him any more.

¹³ ¶ And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year of Noah, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth, and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

¹⁴ And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried.

¹⁵ ¶ And God spoke unto Noah, saying,

¹⁶ Go forth from the ark, thou and thy wife and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

¹⁷ Bring forth with thee every animal that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl and of beasts and of every creeping thing that moves upon the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

¹⁸ And Noah went forth and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him;

¹⁹ all the animals, every creature and every fowl and whatever moves upon the earth after their kinds went forth out of the ark.