Genesis 7
The Lord instructed Noah to enter the ark with his household and to take seven pairs of clean animals and two pairs of unclean animals, as well as seven pairs of birds, to preserve their offspring. Noah obeyed the Lord's command and entered the ark with his family and the animals. The Lord then sent a great flood that lasted for 40 days and 40 nights, destroying every living thing on earth, except for Noah and those with him in the ark. The floodwaters covered the earth for 150 days.
1And the Lord said to him: "Enter the ark, you and all your house. For I have seen you to be just in my sight, within this generation2From all the clean animals, take seven and seven, the male and the female. Yet truly, from animals that are unclean, take two and two, the male and the female3But also from the birds of the air, take seven and seven, the male and the female, so that offspring may be saved upon the face of the whole earth4For from that point, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. And I will wipe away every substance that I have made, from the surface of the earth.5Therefore, Noah did all things just as the Lord had commanded him6And he was six hundred years old when the waters of the great flood inundated the earth7And Noah entered into the ark, and his sons, his wife, and the wives of his sons with him, because of the waters of the great flood8And from the animals both clean and unclean, and from the birds, and from everything that moves upon the earth9two by two they were brought into the ark to Noah, male and female, just as the Lord had instructed Noah10And when seven days had passed, the waters of the great flood inundated the earth11In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great abyss were released, and the floodgates of heaven were opened12And rain came upon the earth for forty days and forty nights13On the very same day, Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark14They and every animal according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and everything that moves upon the earth in their kind, and every flying thing according to its kind, all the birds and all that can fly15entered the ark to Noah, two by two out of all that is flesh, in which there was the breath of life16And those that entered went in male and female, from all that is flesh, just as God had instructed him. And then the Lord closed him in from the outside17And the great flood occurred for forty days upon the earth. And the waters were increased, and they lifted the ark high above the land18For they overflowed greatly, and they filled everything on the surface of the earth. And then the ark was carried across the waters19And the waters prevailed beyond measure across the earth. And all the lofty mountains under the whole heaven were covered20The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered21And all flesh was consumed which moved upon the earth: flying things, animals, wild beasts, and all moving things that crawl upon the ground. And all men22and everything in which there is the breath of life on earth, died23And he wiped away all substance that was upon the earth, from man to animal, the crawling things just as much as the flying things of the air. And they were wiped away from the earth. But only Noah remained, and those who were with him in the ark24And the waters possessed the earth for one hundred and fifty days
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