Genesis 7
Living Bible
7 Finally the day came when the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the boat with all your family, for among all the people of the earth, I consider you alone to be righteous. 2 Bring in the animals, too—a pair of each, except those kinds I have chosen for eating and for sacrifice: take seven pairs of each of them, 3 and seven pairs[a] of every kind of bird. Thus there will be every kind of life reproducing again after the flood has ended. 4 One week from today I will begin forty days and nights of rain; and all the animals and birds and reptiles I have made will die.”
5 So Noah did everything the Lord commanded him. 6 He was 600 years old when the flood came. 7 He boarded the boat with his wife and sons and their wives, to escape the flood. 8-9 With him were all the various kinds of animals—those for eating and sacrifice, and those that were not, and the birds and reptiles. They came into the boat in pairs, male and female, just as God commanded Noah.
10-12 One week later, when Noah was 600 years, two months, and seventeen days old, the rain came down in mighty torrents from the sky, and the subterranean waters burst forth upon the earth for forty days and nights. 13 But Noah had gone into the boat that very day with his wife and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives. 14-15 With them in the boat were pairs of every kind of animal—domestic and wild—and reptiles and birds of every sort. 16 Two by two they came, male and female, just as God had commanded. Then the Lord God[b] closed the door and shut them in.
17 For forty days the roaring floods prevailed, covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth. 18 As the water rose higher and higher above the ground, the boat floated safely upon it; 19 until finally the water covered all the high mountains under the whole heaven, 20 standing twenty-two feet and more above the highest peaks. 21 And all living things upon the earth perished—birds, domestic and wild animals, and reptiles and all mankind— 22 everything that breathed and lived upon dry land. 23 All existence on the earth was blotted out—man and animals alike, and reptiles and birds. God destroyed them all, leaving only Noah alive, and those with him in the boat. 24 And the water covered the earth 150 days.
Footnotes
- Genesis 7:3 seven pairs, literally, “the male and female.”
- Genesis 7:16 the Lord God, literally, “Jehovah.”
Genesis 7
King James Version
7 And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I 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 beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and 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 heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
16 And they 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 increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased 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 hills, that were under the whole heaven, 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 cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
1 Moseboken 7
nuBibeln (Swedish Contemporary Bible)
7 Sedan sa Herren till Noa: ”Gå in i arken med hela din familj, för i denna tid är det bara dig som jag funnit vara rättfärdig. 2 Av de rena fyrfotadjuren ska du ta sju par av varje art, hane och hona. Av alla orena djur ska du ta ett par, hane och hona. 3 Också av himlens alla fåglar ska du ta sju par, hane och hona, av varje slag, för att de ska överleva på jorden. 4 Om en vecka ska jag sända ett regn som kommer att vara i fyrtio dagar och fyrtio nätter, och jag ska utplåna från jorden alla levande varelser som jag har skapat.”
5 Noa gjorde i allt som Herren hade befallt honom. 6 Han var 600 år när översvämningen kom över jorden. 7 Han gick in i arken med sin hustru, sina söner och sina svärdöttrar, för att fly undan översvämningen. 8 Hanar och honor av alla fyrfotadjur, både rena och orena, och av fåglar och alla markens kräldjur 9 kom in i arken till Noa parvis, precis som Gud hade befallt Noa.
10 En vecka senare kom flodvattnen över jorden. 11 Noa var 600 år gammal när floden kom den sjuttonde dagen i andra månaden. Då bröt det stora djupets källor fram, och himlens luckor öppnades. 12 Regnet föll över jorden under fyrtio dygn. 13 Men Noa hade samma dag gått in i arken med sin hustru och sina söner Sem, Ham och Jafet och deras hustrur. 14 Med dem fanns de olika sorterna av vilda djur och boskap, alla slags kräldjur, fåglar och andra bevingade djur. 15 De kom alla till Noa, ett par av varje levande varelse, de som har livsande i sig. 16 Hanar och honor av alla slags djur kom, precis som Gud hade befallt Noa. Och Herren stängde dörren efter honom.
17 Under fyrtio dagar kom floden över jorden. Det kom så mycket vatten att arken lyftes och flöt högt ovanför jorden. 18 Vattnet steg högre och högre, och arken flöt på vattnet. 19 Vattnet steg allt mer och täckte slutligen alla berg under himlen. 20 Vattnet steg mer än sju meter över de högsta topparna.
21 Hela myllret av jordens levande varelser gick under: fåglar, boskap, vilda djur, hela jordens vimmel av smådjur och alla människor. 22 Allt som andades och levde på torra land dog, 23 ja, allt liv på jorden utplånades. Allt levande på jorden utplånades: människor och djur, kräldjur och himlens fåglar. Bara Noa och de som var med honom i arken blev kvar. 24 Vattnet täckte jorden i 150 dagar.
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