Chapter 6
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And it was when humanity began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them.
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And the sons of God saw the daughters of Adam that they were good. Behold, they took for themselves wives from all that they chose.
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And the LORD said, "My spirit shall not contend in humanity forever, in that he is flesh. His days shall be one hundred and twenty years."
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The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of the cosmic came to the daughters of Adam and they bore children to them. They were the mighty men who were from eternity, men of the name.
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And the LORD saw that the evil of humanity had multiplied on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the day.
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And the LORD regretted that he had made humanity on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
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And the LORD said, "I will wipe out humanity whom I have created from the face of the ground, from humanity to livestock, to creeping thing, and to bird of the heavens, for I regret that I made them."
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And Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
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These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generations. Noah walked with God.
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And Noah fathered three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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And the land was corrupted before God, and the land was filled with violence.
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And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupted, for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.
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And God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Behold, I am destroying the earth."
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Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make nests in the ark, and you shall cover it inside and outside with pitch.
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And this is how you shall make it: the ark three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
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You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit from above. And you shall put a door in the side of the ark. You shall make lower, second, and third decks.
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And behold, I am bringing floodwaters upon the land to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under the heavens. All that is in the land will expire.
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And I will establish my covenant with you, and you will come into the ark—you, and your sons, and your wife, and the wives of your sons with you.
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And from every living creature, from every flesh, two of every one you shall bring to the ark to keep them alive; male and female they shall be.
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Of the birds according to their kinds, of the animals according to their kinds, and of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind—two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.
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And you, take for yourself all food that is eaten, gather it to yourself, and it will be for you and for them for food.
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And Noah did according to all that God commanded him; so he did.
Chapter 7
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And the LORD said to Noah, "Come, you and all your household, into the ark, for you I have seen righteous before me in this generation."
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From all the clean beasts you shall take seven pairs to yourself, male and female, and from the beasts that are not clean, two, male and female.
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Also from the birds of the heavens seven pairs, male and female, to keep seed alive over the face of all the earth.
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For in yet seven days I am causing it to rain upon the land forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe out every substance that I have made from the face of the ground.
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And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
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And Noah was six hundred years old, and the floodwaters were upon the earth.
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Noah and his sons and his wife and the wives of his sons with them entered the ark because of the waters of the flood.
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of the clean animals and of the animals that are not clean, and of the birds, and of all that creeps on the ground
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They came to Noah to the ark two by two, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.
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And it was at the end of seven days, and the waters of the flood were on the earth.
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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 springs of the great deep were split open and the lattices of the heavens were opened.
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And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
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On this very day Noah entered, and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons, into the ark.
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They and every living thing according to its kind and every beast according to its kind and every creeping thing, the creeping things on the land, according to their kind and every bird according to its kind, every bird, every winged one.
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They came to Noah, to the ark, two by two from all the flesh in which is the spirit of life.
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And those that came, male and female, from all flesh came as God had commanded him, and the LORD shut the door behind him.
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And the flood was upon the earth forty days, and the waters increased and lifted the ark, and it rose above the earth.
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The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark went on the surface of the waters.
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And the waters prevailed greatly upon the land, and they covered all the high mountains which were under all the heavens.
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The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward and covered the mountains.
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And all flesh expired—the creeping thing on the land, the birds, the cattle, the life, and all the swarming thing that swarms on the land, and all Adam.
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Everything that had the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils, from everything that was on the dry land, died.
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And he wiped out every living thing that was upon the face of the earth from humanity until beast until creeping thing until bird of the heavens, and they wiped them out from the land, and there remained only Noah and those with him in the ark of Noah.
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And the waters prevailed on the land for a hundred and fifty days.
Chapter 8
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And God remembered Noah and all the living creatures and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God caused a wind to pass over the land, and the waters subsided.
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The fountains of the deep were closed, and the windows of the heavens were restrained, and the rain from the heavens was restrained.
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And the waters receded from the land, going and returning, and the waters diminished at the end of fifty and a hundred days.
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And the ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
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The waters continued to recede until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.
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And it was at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made.
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And he sent out the raven, and it went out, going back and forth until the waters had dried up from upon the earth.
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He sent out the dove from him to see if the waters had subsided from the surface of the ground.
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And the dove did not find rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for waters were on the face of all the earth. And he sent out his hand and took her and brought her to himself in the ark.
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And he waited seven more days and again sent the dove from the ark.
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The dove came to him toward evening, and there was a freshly plucked olive leaf in her mouth. Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the land.
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And he waited yet another seven days, and he sent out the dove, and she did not return to him again.
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In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the waters had dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark, and he saw—behold, the surface of the ground had dried up.
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And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
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And God spoke to Noah, saying:
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Go out from the ark—you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives with you.
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Every living creature that is with you, from all flesh—among fowl and among livestock and among every swarming thing that swarms on the land—go out with you. Swarm in the land, be fruitful, and multiply on the land.
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Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and the wives of his sons with him.
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Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird—every swarming thing on the land—according to their families, went out from the ark.
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And Noah built an altar to the LORD. He took from all the clean animals and from all the clean birds, and he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
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And the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, and the LORD said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground for humanity's sake, for the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth, and I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done."
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As long as the earth endures, seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.