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 Noahs 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 Noahs 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.