1And the LORD 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 by sevens , the male and his female : and of beasts that are not clean by two , the male and his female . 3Of fowls also of the air by sevens , the male and the 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 substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth . 5And Noah did according unto all that the LORD 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 fowls , and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth , 9There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark , the male and the female , as God had commanded Noah . 10And it came to pass after 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 , the seventeenth day of the month , 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 his kind , and all the cattle after their kind , and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind , and every fowl after his 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 had commanded him: and the LORD 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 lift up above the earth . 18And the waters prevailed , and were 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 hills , 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 of fowl , and of cattle , and of beast , and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth , and every man : 22All in whose nostrils was the breath of life , of all that was in the dry land , died . 23And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground , both man , and cattle , and the creeping things , and the fowl of the heaven ; and they were destroyed from the earth : and Noah only remained alive , and they that were with him in the ark . 24And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days .