1 A nd Jehovah saith to Noah, `Come in, thou and all thy house, unto the ark, for thee I have seen righteous before Me in this generation;

And the Lord said to Noah, Come with all your household into the ark, for I have seen you to be righteous (upright and in right standing) before Me in this generation.

2 o f all the clean beasts thou dost take to thee seven pairs, a male and its female; and of the beasts which are not clean two, a male and its female;

Of every clean beast you shall receive and take with you seven pairs, the male and his mate, and of beasts that are not clean a pair of each kind, the male and his mate,

3 a lso, of fowl of the heavens seven pairs, a male and a female, to keep alive seed on the face of all the earth;

Also of the birds of the air seven pairs, the male and the female, to keep seed alive over all the earth or land.

4 f or after other seven days I am sending rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and have wiped away all the substance that I have made from off the face of the ground.'

For in seven days I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living substance and thing that I have made I will destroy, blot out, and wipe away from the face of the earth.

5 A nd Noah doth according to all that Jehovah hath commanded him:

And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.

6 a nd Noah a son of six hundred years, and the deluge of waters hath been upon the earth.

Noah was 600 years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth or land.

7 A nd Noah goeth in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, unto the ark, from the presence of the waters of the deluge;

And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.

8 o f the clean beasts and of the beasts that not clean, and of the fowl, and of every thing that is creeping upon the ground,

Of clean animals and of animals that are not clean, and of birds and fowls, and of everything that creeps on the ground,

9 t wo by two they have come in unto Noah, unto the ark, a male and a female, as God hath commanded Noah.

There went in two and two with Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

10 A nd it cometh to pass, after the seventh of the days, that waters of the deluge have been on the earth.

And after the seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth or land.

11 I n the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened,

In the year 600 of Noah’s life, in the seventeenth day of the second month, that same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up and burst forth, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened.

12 a nd the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights.

And it rained upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 I n this self-same day went in Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, unto the ark;

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

14 t hey, and every living creature after its kind, and every beast after its kind, and every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird -- every wing.

They and every beast according to its kind, all the livestock according to their kinds, every moving thing that creeps on the land according to its kind, and every fowl according to its kind, every winged thing of every sort.

15 A nd they come in unto Noah, unto the ark, two by two of all the flesh in which a living spirit;

And they went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there were the breath and spirit of life.

16 a nd they that are coming in, male and female of all flesh, have come in as God hath commanded him, and Jehovah doth close for him.

And they that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded; and the Lord shut him in and closed round about him.

17 A nd the deluge is forty days on the earth, and the waters multiply, and lift up the ark, and it is raised up from off the earth;

The flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased and bore up the ark, and it was lifted above the land.

18 a nd the waters are mighty, and multiply exceedingly upon the earth; and the ark goeth on the face of the waters.

And the waters became mighty and increased greatly upon the land, and the ark went upon the surface of the waters.

19 A nd the waters have been very very mighty on the earth, and covered are all the high mountains which under the whole heavens;

And the waters prevailed so exceedingly and were so mighty upon the earth that all the high hills under the whole sky were covered.

20 f ifteen cubits upwards have the waters become mighty, and the mountains are covered;

the waters became fifteen cubits higher, as the high hills were covered.

21 a nd expire doth all flesh that is moving on the earth, among fowl, and among cattle, and among beasts, and among all the teeming things which are teeming on the earth, and all mankind;

And all flesh ceased to breathe that moved upon the earth—fowls and birds, animals, beasts, all swarming and creeping things that swarm and creep upon the land, and all mankind.

22 a ll in whose nostrils breath of a living spirit -- of all that in the dry land -- have died.

Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils were the breath and spirit of life died.

23 A nd wiped away is all the substance that is on the face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto fowl of the heavens; yea, they are wiped away from the earth, and only Noah is left, and those who with him in the ark;

God destroyed (blotted out) every living thing that was upon the face of the earth; man and animals and the creeping things and the birds of the heavens were destroyed (blotted out) from the land. Only Noah remained alive, and those who were with him in the ark.

24 a nd the waters are mighty on the earth a hundred and fifty days.

And the waters prevailed upon the earth or land 150 days (five months).