book of Genesis ( NKJV
)
7:1 Then the LORD said to Noah, "Come into the
ark, you and all your household, because I have seen [that] you [are] righteous
before Me in this generation. 2 "You shall take with
you seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female; two each of
animals that [are] unclean, a male and his female; 3 "also
seven each of birds of the air, male and female, to keep the species alive
on the face of all the earth. 4 "For after seven more
days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights,
and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I
have made." 5 And Noah did according to all that the
LORD commanded him. 6 Noah [was] six hundred years old
when the floodwaters were on the earth. 7 So Noah, with
his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the
waters of the flood. 8 Of clean animals, of animals
that [are] unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth,
9 two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as
God had commanded Noah. 10 And it came to pass after
seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month,
the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the
great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 On the very same day Noah and Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth,
and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the
ark -- 14 they and every beast after its kind, all cattle
after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its
kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.
15 And they went into the ark to Noah, two by two, of all flesh
in which [is] the breath of life. 16 So those that entered,
male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the
LORD shut him in. 17 Now the flood was on the earth
forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high
above the earth. 18 The waters prevailed and greatly
increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the waters.
19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the
high hills under the whole heaven were covered. 20 The
waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.
21 And all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and cattle
and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every
man. 22 All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of the
spirit of life, all that [was] on the dry [land,] died. 23
So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground:
both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed
from the earth. Only Noah and those who [were] with him in the ark remained
[alive.] 24 And the waters prevailed on the earth one
hundred and fifty days. |