Chapter 7
1And the LORD said to Noah, Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
2Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, a male and its mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, a male and its mate.
3Also of the birds of the heavens, seven pairs, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.
4For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will blot out from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.
5And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
6Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth.
7And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
8Of clean animals and of animals that are not clean, and of birds and of everything that creeps on the ground.
9They went into the ark with Noah, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
10And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.
11In 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 forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
12And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark.
14They and every beast according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every winged creature.
15And they went into the ark with Noah, two by two of all flesh in which was the breath of life.
16And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.
17The flood continued forty days on the earth; the waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.
18And the waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters.
19And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.
20The waters rose fifteen cubits above them, and the mountains were covered.
21And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind.
22Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.
23He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, and they were blotted out from the earth; only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.
24And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.
Chapter 8
1But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.
2The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the heavens was restrained.
3The waters receded from the earth continually; at the end of 150 days the waters had abated.
4And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
5And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
6At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made.
7And he sent out the raven, and it went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth.
8Then he sent out the dove from him to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground.
9But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of all the earth; so he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him.
10He waited another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark.
11And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf; so Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.
12Then he waited another seven days and sent out the dove, and she did not return to him anymore.
13In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.
14In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out.
15Then God spoke to Noah, saying,
16Go out from the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives with you.
17Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.
18So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.
19Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out of the ark by families.
20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21And the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, and the LORD said in his heart, I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth; nor will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.
22While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.