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will die. 18But I will confirm my covenant
with you. So enter the boat—you and
your wife and your sons and their wives.
19 Bring a pair of every kind of animal—a
male and a female—into the boat with
you to keep them alive during the flood.
20Pairs of every kind of bird, and every
kind of animal, and every kind of small
animal that scurries along the ground,
will come to you to be kept alive. 21And
be sure to take on board enough food for
your family and for all the animals.”
22 So Noah did everything exactly as
God had commanded him.
7:1When everything was ready, the Lord
said to Noah, “Go into the boat with all
your family, for among all the people of
the earth, I can see that 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.
11When 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
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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. 14With 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.
17 For 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,
20 rising 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
survived were Noah and those with him
in the boat. 24And the floodwaters covered the earth for 150 days.
5:1 Or man; Hebrew reads adam; similarly in 5:2. 5:6 Or
the ancestor of; also in 5:9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 25. 5:7 Or the
birth of this ancestor of; also in 5:10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 26.
5:29 Noah sounds like a Hebrew term that can mean
“relief” or “comfort.” 6:2 Hebrew daughters of men; also
in 6:4. 6:3 Greek version reads will not remain in.
6:14a Traditionally rendered an ark. 6:14b Or gopher
wood. 6:15 Hebrew 300 cubits [138 meters] long,
50 cubits [23 meters] wide, and 30 cubits [13.8 meters]
high. 6:16 Hebrew an opening of 1 cubit [46 centimeters].
7:2 Hebrew of each clean animal; similarly in 7:8.
7:20 Hebrew 15 cubits [6.9 meters].
MATTHEW 3:7–4:11
But when he [John] saw many Pharisees
and Sadducees coming to watch him
baptize,* he denounced them. “You
brood of snakes!” he exclaimed. “Who
warned you to flee the coming wrath?
8Prove by the way you live that you have
