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Noah and the Flood

¹ Then Yahweh said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be ^(C1)righteous before Me in this generation.² "You shall take ^(F1)with you of every ^(C1)clean animal ^(F2)by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean, two, a male and his female;³ also of the birds of the ^(F1)sky, ^(F2)by sevens, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of all the earth.⁴ "For after ^(C1)seven more days, I will send rain on the earth ^(C2)forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land ^(C3)every living thing that I have made."^5 (C1)And Noah did according to all that Yahweh had commanded him.

⁶ Now Noah was ^(C1)six hundred years old when the flood of water ^(F1)came upon the earth.⁷ Then ^(C1)Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood.^8 (C1)Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that creeps on the ground,^9 (F1)by twos they came to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.¹⁰ Now it happened after ^(C1)the seven days, that the water of the flood ^(F1)came upon the earth.¹¹ In the ^(C1)six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all ^(C2)the fountains of the great deep split open, and the ^(F1)floodgates of the sky were opened.^12 (C1)Then the rain ^(F1)came upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

¹³ On this very day ^(C1)Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark,¹⁴ they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after ^(F1)their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind—every ^(F2)fowl, every winged creature.¹⁵ So they came to Noah into the ark, ^(C1)by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life.¹⁶ And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and Yahweh closed it behind him.

¹⁷ Then the flood ^(F1)came upon the earth for ^(C1)forty days, and the water multiplied and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.¹⁸ And the water prevailed and multiplied greatly upon the earth, and the ark went on the ^(F1)surface of the water.¹⁹ And the water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.²⁰ The water prevailed ^(F1)fifteen cubits higher, ^(C1)and the mountains were covered.^21 (C1)And all flesh that ^(F1)moved on the earth breathed its last, that is birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, as well as all mankind.²² All ^(C1)in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life—of all that was on the dry land—died.²³ Thus He blotted out ^(F1)every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the ^(F2)sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only ^(C1)Noah remained, and those that were with him in the ark.^24 (C1)And the water prevailed upon the earth 150 days.