1 ¶ And the LORD said unto Noah, Enter thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the boat, you and all your family. For I have seen that you only are right and good at this time.

2 O f every clean animal thou shalt take to thee seven pairs, the male and his female; but of animals that are not clean, two, the male and his female.

Take with you seven of every clean animal of each sex, and one of each sex of the animals that are unclean.

3 O f fowls also of the heavens by seven pairs, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

And take with you seven of every kind of bird of the sky of each sex, to keep their kind alive over all the earth.

4 F or yet in seven days, I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every substance that I have made I will destroy from off the face of the earth.

In seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy from the land every living thing that I have made.”

5 ¶ And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.

And Noah did all that the Lord told him to do.

6 A nd Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

Noah was 600 years old when the flood of water came upon the earth.

7 A nd 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.

Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives all went into the large boat because of the water of the flood.

8 O f clean animals and of animals that are not clean and of fowls and of every thing that moves upon the earth,

Clean animals and animals that were unclean and birds and every thing that moved on the ground

9 t here went in two by two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

went into the large boat with Noah. They went two by two, male and female, just as God had told Noah.

10 A nd it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

After seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

11 ¶ In 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 the heavens were opened.

In the year 600 of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the wells of water under the earth broke open. The windows of the heavens were opened.

12 A nd there was rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

13 ¶ In that same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered into the ark,

On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, all went into the large boat.

14 t hey and every animal after its kind and all the beasts after their kind and every creeping thing that moves upon the earth after its kind and every fowl after its kind, every bird, every thing with wings.

With them went every kind of animal, and all the cattle, and every thing that moved on the earth, and every kind of bird.

15 A nd they went in unto Noah into the ark, two by two of all flesh in which is the spirit of life.

They went into the large boat with Noah, two of every living thing.

16 A nd those that went in went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him, and the LORD shut him in.

Male and female of all flesh went in as God had told Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.

17 ¶ And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters multiplied and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

The flood came upon the earth for forty days. The water got deeper and raised up the large boat so that it was lifted above the earth.

18 A nd the waters prevailed and multiplied greatly upon the earth, and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

The water was very deep upon the earth. And the boat stayed upon the top of the water.

19 A nd the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the high mountains that were under all the heavens were covered.

The water got higher and higher upon the earth until all the high mountains under heaven were covered.

20 F ifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail, and the mountains were covered.

But the water went about four times taller than a man above the tops of the mountains.

21 ¶ And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of beasts and of animals and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth and every man;

All flesh that moved on the earth was destroyed, birds and cattle and wild animals, and every man.

22 a ll in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life of all that was in the dry land died.

Every thing that had the breath of life and lived on dry land died.

23 A nd every substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man and cattle and the animals and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth, and only Noah remained alive and those that were with him in the ark.

God destroyed every living thing upon the land, from man to animals, from things that moved upon the ground to birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the large boat.

24 A nd the waters prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.

And the water covered the earth for 150 days.