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each animal I have approved for eating and for sacrifice,* and take one
pair of each of the others. 3 Also take
seven pairs of e very 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 every
thing as the
Lord commanded him.
6 Noah was 600 years old when the
flood covered the earth. 7 He went on
board the boat to escape the flood—
he and his wife and his sons and their
wives. 8 With 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. 10 After 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. 16 A 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 flood
waters
grew deeper, covering the ground and
lifting the boat high above the earth.
18 As the waters rose higher and higher
above the ground, the boat floated
safely on the surface. 19 Finally, the
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water covered even the highest mountains on the earth, 20 rising more than
twenty-two feet* above the highest
peaks. 21 All the living things on earth
died—birds, domestic animals, wild
animals, small animals that scurry
along the ground, and all the people.
22 Everything that breathed and lived
on dry land died. 23 God 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. 24 And
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 the Baptist] saw
many Phar
i
s ees and Sadducees
coming to watch him baptize,* he
denounced them. “You brood of
snakes!” he exclaimed. “Who warned
you to flee God’s coming wrath?
8 Prove by the way you live that you
have repented of your sins and turned
to God. 9 Don’t just say to each other,
‘We’re safe, for we are descendants
of Abraham.’ That means nothing,
for I tell you, God can create children
of Abraham from these very stones.
10 Even now the ax of God’s judgment
is poised, ready to sever the roots of
the trees. Yes, e very tree that does not
produce good fruit will be chopped
down and thrown into the fire.
11 “I baptize with* water those who
repent of their sins and turn to God.
But someone is coming soon who is
greater than I am—so much greater
that I’m not worthy even to be his
slave and carry his sandals. He will
baptize you with the Holy Spirit and
