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you alone are righteous. 2 Take with you seven
pairs—male and female—of each animal I have
approved for eating and for sacrifice, and take
one pair of each of the others. 3Also take seven
pairs of every kind of bird. There must be a male
and a female in each pair to ensure that all life
will survive on the earth after the flood. 4Seven
days from now I will make the rains pour down
on the earth. And it will rain for forty days and
forty nights, until I have wiped from the earth all
the living things I have created.”
5 So Noah did everything as the Lord commanded him.
6Noah was 600 years old when the flood covered the earth. 7He went on board the boat to escape the flood—he and his wife and his sons and
their wives. 8With them were all the various
kinds of animals—those approved for eating and
for sacrifice and those that were not—along with
all the birds and the small animals that scurry
along the ground. 9 They entered the boat in
pairs, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah. 10After seven days, the waters of
the flood came and covered the earth.
11 When Noah was 600 years old, on the
seventeenth day of the second month, all the
underground waters erupted from the earth, and
the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky.
12 The rain continued to fall for forty days and
forty nights.
13 That very day Noah had gone into the boat
with his wife and his sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—and their wives. 14 With them in the boat
were pairs of every kind of animal—domestic and
wild, large and small—along with birds of every
kind. 15 Two by two they came into the boat, representing every living thing that breathes. 16A
male and female of each kind entered, just as God
had commanded Noah. Then the Lord closed the
door behind them.
17For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper,
covering the ground and lifting the boat high
above the earth. 18As the waters rose higher and
higher above the ground, the boat floated safely
on the surface. 19Finally, the water covered even
the highest mountains on the earth, 20rising
more than twenty-two feet above the highest
peaks. 21All the living things on earth died—
birds, domestic animals, wild animals, small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the
people. 22Everything that breathed and lived on
dry land died. 23God wiped out every living thing
on the earth—people, livestock, small animals
that scurry along the ground, and the birds of the
sky. All were destroyed. The only people who sur-
vived were Noah and those with him in the boat.
24And the floodwaters covered the earth for
150 days.
CHAPTER
8
The Flood Recedes
But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the boat. He sent
a wind to blow across the earth, and the floodwaters began to recede. 2 The underground waters stopped flowing, and the torrential rains
from the sky were stopped. 3 So the floodwaters
gradually receded from the earth. After 150
days, 4exactly five months from the time the
flood began, the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5 Two and a half months later, as
the waters continued to go down, other mountain peaks became visible.
6After another forty days, Noah opened the
window he had made in the boat 7and released a
raven. The bird flew back and forth until the
floodwaters on the earth had dried up. 8He also
released a dove to see if the water had receded
and it could find dry ground. 9 But the dove could
find no place to land because the water still covered the ground. So it returned to the boat, and
Noah held out his hand and drew the dove back
inside. 10After waiting another seven days, Noah
released the dove again. 11 This time the dove returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive
leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the floodwaters were almost gone. 12He waited another
seven days and then released the dove again.
This time it did not come back.
13Noah was now 601 years old. On the first
day of the new year, ten and a half months after
the flood began, the floodwaters had almost
dried up from the earth. Noah lifted back the
covering of the boat and saw that the surface of
the ground was drying. 14 Two more months went
by, and at last the earth was dry!
15 Then God said to Noah, 16“Leave the boat, all
of you—you and your wife, and your sons and
their wives. 17Release all the animals—the birds,
the livestock, and the small animals that scurry
along the ground—so they can be fruitful and
multiply throughout the earth.”
18So Noah, his wife, and his sons and their
wives left the boat. 19And all of the large and
small animals and birds came out of the boat,
pair by pair.
20Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and
there he sacrificed as burnt offerings the animals and birds that had been approved for that
purpose. 21And the Lord was pleased with the
