Genesis 7:1WEB
Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
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Genesis 7:1WEB
Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Genesis 7:2WEB
You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.
Genesis 7:3WEB
Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
Genesis 7:4WEB
In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”
Genesis 7:5WEB
Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Genesis 7:6WEB
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
Genesis 7:7WEB
Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.
Genesis 7:8WEB
Clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground
Genesis 7:9WEB
went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
Genesis 7:10WEB
After the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth.
Genesis 7:11WEB
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.
Genesis 7:12WEB
It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 7:13WEB
In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship—
Genesis 7:14WEB
they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.
Genesis 7:15WEB
Pairs from all flesh with the breath of life in them went into the ship to Noah.
Genesis 7:16WEB
Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then Yahweh shut him in.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Genesis 7:17WEB
The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.
Genesis 7:18WEB
The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.
Genesis 7:19WEB
The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.
Genesis 7:20WEB
The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.
Genesis 7:21WEB
All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.
Genesis 7:22WEB
All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
Genesis 7:23WEB
Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.
Genesis 7:24WEB
The waters flooded the earth one hundred fifty days.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.