Yahweh Sends the Flood

7:1-23

7 Then Yahweh 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. 2 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, 3 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, 4 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.” 5 Then Noah did all that Yahweh had commanded him.

6 Now Noah was a son of 600 years when the floodwaters came on the earth. 7 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. 8 Pairs from the clean animals and from the animals that are not clean and from the birds and everything that moves on the ground 9 went two by two to Noah into the ark, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.

10 And it happened, after the seven days, then the waters of the flood came on the earth. 11 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, 12 so that the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 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, 14 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. 15 So they went to Noah into the ark, two by two from all flesh which has in it the breath of life. 16 And those that went in were male and female from all flesh; they went in just as God had commanded him. Then Yahweh shut him in.

17 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. 18 And the waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark went on the surface of the waters. 19 And the waters rose very greatly on the earth, so that all the high mountains that were under the entire heavens were covered. 20 The waters rose fifteen cubits above them, so that the mountains were covered. 21 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. 22 Everything that had the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils, everything that lived on dry land, died. 23 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.