7:1 The LORD then spoke to Noah:
Get
into the boat you and your family
because
you were devoted to Me
within
this society.
7:2 Take seven pairs of pure creatures
male
and mate
and
one pair of every kind of beast
male
and mate
7:3 seven pairs of every kind of bird
male
and mate
to
keep their species alive
throughout
the land.
7:4 In seven days from now
a
rain will come for forty days
and
forty nights,
and
wipe out every creature
living
on the land.
7:5 So Noah did
what
Yahweh spoke to him about.
7:6 Noah was six hundred years old
when
the floodwaters came on the land.
7:7 Then Noah and his sons
wife
and son’s wives
got
on the boat
to
escape the waters of the flood.
7:8 Pairs of pure and impure animals
birds
and all creatures
that
crawl along the ground
7:9 approached Noah two by two
and
went into the boat
both
male and female
just
as the Almighty had spoken to Noah.
7:10 Then after the seven days
the
floodwaters came onto the land.
7:11 In the 600th year of the life of Noah
on
the 17th day of the 2nd new moon
that
day an upwelling
of
the depths rushed forth
and
the sky’s floodgates opened up.
7:12 Then rain fell on the land
for
forty days and forty nights.
7:13 On that day Noah and his sons
Shem,
Ham and Japheth
together
with his wife
and
the wives of his three sons
boarded
the boat.
7:14 With them was every creature
according
to its species
those
beasts that roamed the land
according
to their kinds
every
creature that crawled on the ground
according
to its kind
and
every bird with wings
according
to its kind.
7:15 On they went into Noah’s boat
those
creatures with the spirit of life.
7:16 Then they went inside
male
and female bodies
just
as the Almighty told Noah.
Then
Yahweh closed him inside.
7:17 For forty days the floods
came
onto the land
and
as the waters rose
the
boat lifted up over the ground.
7:18 As the waters rose over the land
the
boat floated on the water’s surface.
7:19 They rose up over the ground
and
every hill under the sky
became
covered over.
7:20 The waters rose by 23 cubits
and
covered the hills.
7:21 The living creatures passed away:
Birds
and beasts of the field
creatures
that crawl on the ground
as
well as the humans.
7:22 All those living on dry land
those
with living spirit inside
passed
away.
7:23 All the life
on
the surface of the land
humans
and animals
creatures
that crawl on the ground
and
the birds
were
wiped off
the
surface of the land.
Only
Noah and those with him
on
the boat were left alive.
7:24 The waters inundated
the
land for 150 days.
