Genesis 7

¹And the Lord said to Noah, ‘Come into the ark, you and all your household, for it is you that I have seen as a righteous man before Me in this generation.

²Of all the clean animals you shall take for yourself seven pairs, a male and its mate, and of the animals that are not clean, two, a male and its mate.

³Also, of the fowl of the heavens, seven pairs, male and female, to keep seed alive on the face of the earth.

⁴For in another seven days, I will make it rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will blot out all beings that I have made, off the face of the earth.’

⁵And Noah did, according to all that the Lord had commanded him.

⁶And Noah was six hundred years old, and the flood came about, water upon the earth.

⁷And Noah went in and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him into the ark because of the flood waters.

⁸Of the clean beasts and of the beasts that are not clean, and of the fowl, and all that creeps upon the earth.

⁹Two by two they came to Noah to the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

¹⁰And it came to pass after the seven days, that the flood waters were upon the earth.

¹¹In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day, all the springs of the great deep were split, and the windows of the heavens opened up.

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

¹³On this very day, Noah came, and Shem and Ham and Japheth, Noah's sons, and Noah's wife and his sons' three wives with them, into the ark.

¹⁴They, and every beast after its kind, and every domestic animal after its kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird of every wing.

¹⁵And they came to Noah to the ark, two by two of all flesh in which there is the spirit of life.

¹⁶And those who came male and female of all flesh came, as God had commanded him, and the Lord shut him in.

¹⁷Now the Flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased, and they lifted the ark, and it rose off the earth.

¹⁸And the waters became powerful, and they increased very much upon the earth, and the ark moved upon the waters.

¹⁹And the waters became exceedingly powerful upon the earth, and all the lofty mountains that were under the heavens were covered up.

²⁰Fifteen cubits above did the waters prevail, and the mountains were covered up.

²¹And all flesh perished that moved upon the earth, among the fowl, and among the cattle, and among the beasts, and among all creeping creatures that creep upon the earth and all mankind.

²²Everything that had the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils, of all that were on the dry land, died.

²³And it [the Flood] blotted out all beings that were upon the face of the earth, from man to animal to creeping thing and to the fowl of the heavens, and they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark survived.

²⁴And the water prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.