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Noah and the Flood
This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.
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I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.
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Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.
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And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
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And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.
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In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
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For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.
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The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.
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Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.
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I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
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I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
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After the flood Noah lived 350 years.
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The Table of Nations
This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah’s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.
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These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.
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From Shem to Abram
This is the account of Shem’s family line. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
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Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest. Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge,
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And the priests came up out of the river carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord. No sooner had they set their feet on the dry ground than the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and ran at flood stage as before.
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The officer on whose arm the king was leaning said to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” answered Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it!”
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The officer had said to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?” The man of God had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”
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A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.
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why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.
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They were carried off before their time, their foundations washed away by a flood.
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Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night.
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“Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water?
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I am worn out from my groaning. All night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
