Genesis 7

Then God said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen {that} you {are} righteous before me in this generation.

From every clean animal take with you seven pairs, a male and its female, and from {every} animal that {is} not clean {take} two, a male and its female,

also from {every} bird of the sky {take} seven pairs, male and female, to keep {their} offspring alive on the surface of the whole earth, \*

because in seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth {for} forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe every living thing that I have made off the surface of the ground.”

Then Noah did all that God had commanded him. \*

Now Noah {was} a son of 600 years when the floodwaters came on the earth.

And Noah and his sons and his wife and the wives of his sons went with him into the ark from the presence of the waters of the flood. \*

{Pairs} from the clean animal{s} and from the animal{s} that are not clean and from the bird{s} and everything that moves on the ground

went two {by} two to Noah into the ark, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.

And it happened, after the seven days, then the waters of the flood came on the earth. \*

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 windows of the heavens were opened,

so that the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights. \*

On that same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark,

they and every living thing according to its kind, and every livestock according to its kind, and every moving creature moving on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every bird of every wing. \*

So they went to Noah into the ark, two {by} two from all flesh which {has} in it the breath of life.

And those that went in {were} male and female from all flesh; they went in just as God had commanded him. Then God shut him in. \*

Then the flood came on the earth {for} forty days, and the waters increased and lifted the ark so that it rose up off the earth.

And the waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark went on the surface of the waters. \*

And the waters rose very greatly on the earth, so that all the high mountains that {were} under the entire heavens were covered.

The waters rose fifteen cubits above {them}, so that the mountains were covered. \*

Then all flesh that moved on the earth expired, including the birds and the livestock and the living things and all the swarming things swarming on the earth, and all mankind.

Everything that {had} the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils, everything that {lived} on dry land, died. \*

So he wiped away every living thing that {was} on the surface of the ground, including mankind and livestock and crawling creatures and also the birds of the sky. So they were wiped off the earth, and only Noah was left and {those} who {were} with him in the ark.

And the waters prevailed over the earth {for} 150 days. \*