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The Flood

¹ Then the LORD 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 ^(F1)time.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 ^(F3)offspring 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)Noah did according to all that the LORD 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 there went into the ark to Noah ^(F1)by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.¹⁰ It came about 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 the same day all ^(C2)the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the ^(F1)floodgates of the sky were opened.^12 (C1)The rain ^(F1)fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

¹³ On the very same 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, ^(F2)all sorts of birds.¹⁵ So they went into the ark to Noah, ^(C1)by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life.¹⁶ Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and the LORD closed it behind him.

¹⁷ Then the flood ^(F1)came upon the earth for ^(C1)forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.¹⁸ The water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark ^(F1)floated on the ^(F2)surface of the water.¹⁹ The water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains ^(F1)everywhere under the heavens were covered.²⁰ The water prevailed fifteen ^(F1)cubits higher, ^(C1)and the mountains were covered.^21 (C1)All flesh that ^(F1)moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind;²² of all that was on the dry land, all ^(C1)in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, 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 was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.^24 (C1)The water prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.