And the Lord said to him: Go in, thou and all
thy house, into the ark: for thee I have seen just
before me in this generation.
2 Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the
male and the female.
3 But of the beasts that are unclean two and
two, the male and the female. Of the fowls also
of the air seven and seven, the male and the female: that seed may be saved upon the face of
the whole earth.
4 For yet a while, and after seven days, I will
rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights:
and I will destroy every substance that I have
made, from the face of the earth.
5 And Noe did all things which the Lord had
commanded him.
6 And he was six hundred years old, when the
waters of the flood overflowed the earth.
7 And Noe went in and his sons, his wife and
the wives of his sons with him into the ark, be-
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cause of the waters of the flood.
8 And of beasts clean and unclean, and of
fowls, and of every thing that moveth upon the
earth,
9 Two and two went in to Noe into the ark,
male and female, as the Lord had commanded
Noe.
10 And after the seven days were passed, the
waters of the flood overflowed the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe,
in the second month, in the seventeenth day of
the month, all the fountains of the great deep
were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven
were opened:
12 And the rain fell upon the earth forty days
and forty nights.
13 In the selfsame day Noe, and Sem, and
Cham, and Japheth, his sons: his wife, and the
three wives of his sons with them, went into the
ark.
14 They and every beast according to its kind,
and all the cattle in their kind, and every thing
that moveth upon the earth, according to its
kind, and every fowl according to its kind, all
birds, and all that fly,
15 Went in to Noe into the ark, two and two
of all flesh, wherein was the breath of life.
16 And they that went in, went in male and
female of all flesh, as God had commanded him:
and the Lord shut him in on the outside.
17 And the flood was forty days upon the
earth: and the waters increased, and lifted up
the ark on high from the earth.
18 For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled
all on the face of the earth: and the ark was
carried upon the waters.
19 And the waters prevailed beyond measure
upon the earth: and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.
20 The water was fifteen cubits higher than
the mountains which it covered.
21 And all flesh was destroyed that moved
upon the earth, both of fowl and of cattle, and
of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep
upon the earth: and all men.
22 And all things wherein there is the breath
of life on the earth, died.
23 And he destroyed all the substance that
was upon the earth, from man even to beast,
and the creeping things and fowls of the air: and
they were destroyed from the earth: and Noe
only remained, and they that were with him in
the ark.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth a
hundred and fifty days.