1And Jehovah said unto Noah , Come thou and all thy house into the ark ; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation . 2Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee seven and seven , the male and his female ; and of the beasts that are not clean two , the male and his female : 3of the birds also of the heavens , seven and seven , male and female , to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth . 4For yet seven days , and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights ; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the ground . 5And Noah did according unto all that Jehovah commanded him . 6And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. 7And Noah went in , and his sons , and his wife, and his sons ’ wives with him , into the ark , because of the waters of the flood . 8Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean , and of birds , and of everything that creepeth upon the ground, 9there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark , male and female , as God commanded Noah . 10And it came to pass after the seven days , that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 11In the six hundredth year of Noah ’s life , in the second month , on the seventeenth day of the month , on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up , and the windows of heaven were opened . 12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights . 13In the selfsame day entered Noah , and Shem , and Ham , and Japheth , the sons of Noah , and Noah ’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them , into the ark ; 14they , and every beast after its kind , and all the cattle after their kind , and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind , and every bird after its kind , every bird of every sort . 15And they went in unto Noah into the ark , two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life . 16And they that went in , went in male and female of all flesh , as God commanded him : and Jehovah shut him in .
The Gathering of the Animals
17And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased , and bare up the ark , and it was lifted up above the earth. 18And the waters prevailed , and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters . 19And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth ; and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered . 20Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail ; and the mountains were covered . 21And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both birds , and cattle, and beasts , and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man : 22all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life , of all that was on the dry land , died . 23And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground , both man , and cattle, and creeping things , and birds of the heavens ; and they were destroyed from the earth : and Noah only was left , and they that were with him in the ark . 24And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days .