Genesis 7

The LORD said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation. Take with you seven pairs of every clean animal, each male with its mate, and two of every animal that is not clean, a male and its mate. Also take seven pairs of the birds of the sky, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the surface of all the earth. For in seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe every living thing I have made from the surface of the ground.” Noah did everything the LORD commanded him. Noah was 600 years old when the flood of waters came on the earth. Noah entered the ark with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because of the waters of the flood. From the clean animals, from the animals that were not clean, from the birds, and from everything that moves along the ground, they came to Noah into the ark two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. After the seven days, the waters of the flood came on the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that very day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the windows of heaven were opened. Rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights. On that very day Noah entered the ark with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons. They entered with every wild animal according to its kind, all the livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind—every bird, every winged thing. They came to Noah into the ark two by two, from all flesh in which there was the breath of life. Those that entered were male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him. And the LORD shut him in. The flood continued on the earth for forty days. The waters increased and lifted the ark, and it rose above the earth. The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters. The waters prevailed exceedingly over the earth, and all the high mountains under the whole sky were covered. The waters rose more than 22 feet above them, and the mountains were covered. All flesh that moved on the earth perished: birds, livestock, wild animals, every creature that swarms on the earth, and all mankind. Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. God wiped out every living thing on the surface of the ground—man and livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped from the earth. Only Noah remained, and those with him in the ark. The waters prevailed on the earth for 150 days.

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