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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.
The Flood Covers the Earth
When 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. 2Take
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. 4 Seven 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.
6 Noah 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. 12The 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. 15Two 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
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The Flood Recedes
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rose higher and higher above the ground,
the boat floated safely on the surface. 19 Finally, the water covered even the highest
mountains on the earth, 20rising more than
od 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
said people. 22Everything that breathed and lived
ur on dry land died. 23God wiped out every living
earth, thing on the earth—people, livestock, small
ake animals that scurry along the ground, and the
of birds of the sky. All were destroyed. The only
and people who survived were Noah and those
the with him in the boat. 24And the floodwaters
kind covered the earth for 150 days.
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But God remembered Noah and all the
the
wild animals and livestock with him in
orty the boat. He sent a wind to blow across the
earth all earth, and the floodwaters began to recede.
2 The underground waters stopped flowing,
com- and the torrential rains from the sky were
stopped. 3 So the floodwaters gradually reod ceded from the earth. After 150 days, 4exactly
boat five months from the time the flood began,*
his the boat came to rest on the mountains of
the Ararat. 5Two and a half months later,* as the
ed waters continued to go down, other mounthat tain peaks became visible.
6After another forty days, Noah opened
the
ground. the window he had made in the boat 7 and
and released a raven. The bird flew back and
Noah. forth until the floodwaters on the earth had
flood dried up. 8 He also released a dove to see if
the water had receded and it could find dry
the ground. 9 But the dove could find no place
the to land because the water still covered the
earth, ground. So it returned to the boat, and Noah
ell in mighty torrents from the held out his hand and drew the dove back
ys inside. 10After waiting another seven days,
Noah released the dove again. 11This time the
the dove returned to him in the evening with a
Ham, fresh olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew
them that the floodwaters were almost gone. 12He
ani- waited another seven days and then released
small— the dove again. This time it did not come back.
13 Noah was now 601 years old. On the first
two
ery day of the new year, ten and a half months
fe- after the flood began,* the floodwaters had
had almost dried up from the earth. Noah lifted
the back the covering of the boat and saw that
the surface of the ground was drying. 14Two
grew more months went by,* and at last the earth
the was dry!
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