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GEN 6:9–9:17 ©

The Judgment of the Flood

The Judgment of the Flood

9This is the account of Noah.

Noah was a godly man; he was blameless

among his contemporaries. He walked with God. 10Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11The earth was ruined in the sight of God; the earth was filled with violence. 12God saw the earth, and indeed it was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were sinful. 13So God said to Noah, “I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth. 14Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and out. 15This is how you should make it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. 16Make a roof for the ark and finish it, leaving 18 inches from the top. Put a door in the side of the ark, and make lower, middle, and upper decks. 17I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die, 18but I will confirm my covenant with you. You will enter the ark – you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. 19You must bring into the ark two of every kind of living creature from all flesh, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20Of the birds after their kinds, and of the cattle after their kinds, and of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you so you can keep them alive. 21And you must take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten, and gather it together. It will be food for you and for them.

22And Noah did all that God commanded him – he did indeed.

7The Lord said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation. 2You must take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, the male and its mate, two of every kind of unclean animal, the male and its mate, 3and also seven of every kind of bird in the sky, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of the earth. 4For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.”

5And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.

6Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed the earth. 7Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because of the floodwaters. 8Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground, 9male and female, came into the ark to Noah, just as God had commanded him. 10And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed 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 open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

13On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons’ three wives. 14They entered, along with every living creature after its kind, every animal after its kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, everything with wings. 15Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah. 16Those that entered were male and female, just as God commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.

17The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth. 18The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters. 19The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered. 20The waters rose more than twenty feet above the mountains. 21And all living things that moved on the earth died, including the birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all humankind. 22Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. 23So the Lord destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived. 24The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 days.

8But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded. 2The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky. 3The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days. 4On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat. 5The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

6At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark 7and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.

8Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground. 9The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back into the ark. 10He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark. 11When the dove returned to him in the evening, there was a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth. 12He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, but it did not return to him this time.

13In Noah’s six hundred and first year, in the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.

15Then God spoke to Noah and said, 16“Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you. 17Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!”

18Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives. 19Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups.

20Noah built an altar to the Lord. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.

22“While the earth continues to exist,

planting time and harvest,

cold and heat,

summer and winter,

and day and night will not cease.”

9Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 2Every living creature of the earth and every bird of the sky will be terrified of you. Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea are under your authority. 3You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

4But you must not eat meat with its life (that is, its blood) in it. 5For your lifeblood I will surely exact punishment, from every living creature I will exact punishment. From each person I will exact punishment for the life of the individual since the man was his relative.

6“Whoever sheds human blood,

by other humans

must his blood be shed;

for in God’s image

God has made humankind.”

7But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.”

8God said to Noah and his sons, 9“Look! I now confirm my covenant with you and your descendants after you 10and with every living creature that is with you, including the birds, the domestic animals, and every living creature of the earth with you, all those that came out of the ark with you – every living creature of the earth. 11I confirm my covenant with you: Never again will all living things be wiped out by the waters of a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth.”

12And God said, “This is the guarantee of the covenant I am making with you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all subsequent generations: 13I will place my rainbow in the clouds, and it will become a guarantee of the covenant between me and the earth. 14Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15then I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures of all kinds. Never again will the waters become a flood and destroy all living things. 16When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will notice it and remember the perpetual covenant between God and all living creatures of all kinds that are on the earth.”

17So God said to Noah, “This is the guarantee of the covenant that I am confirming between me and all living things that are on the earth.”

GEN 6:9–9:17 ©

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