Genesis 7Genesis7

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1. The Great Flood

   (2 Peter 3:1–7)

2. 1BBEAnd the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.BSBBSB: Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
3. 2BBEOf every clean beast you will take seven males and seven females, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, the male and his female;BSBBSB: You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;
4. 3BBEAnd of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.BSBBSB: and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.
5. 4BBEFor after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth.BSBBSB: For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
6. 5BBEAnd Noah did everything which the Lord said he was to do.BSBBSB: And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
7. 6BBEAnd Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.BSBBSB: Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
8. 7BBEAnd Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.BSBBSB: And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
9. 8BBEOf clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth,BSBBSB: The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
10. 9BBEIn twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said.BSBBSB: came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
11. 10BBEAnd after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.BSBBSB: And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.
12. 11BBEIn the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;BSBBSB: In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
13. 12BBEAnd rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.BSBBSB: And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
14. 13BBEOn the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark;BSBBSB: On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—
15. 14BBEAnd with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every sort of thing which goes on the earth, and every sort of bird.BSBBSB: they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.
16. 15BBEThey went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.BSBBSB: They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.
17. 16BBEMale and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and the ark was shut by the Lord.BSBBSB: And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
18. 17BBEAnd for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.BSBBSB: For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
19. 18BBEAnd the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters.BSBBSB: So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
20. 19BBEAnd the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered.BSBBSB: Finally, the waters completely prevailed upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.
21. 20BBEThe waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all the mountains were covered.BSBBSB: The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.
22. 21BBEAnd destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man.BSBBSB: And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.
23. 22BBEEverything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end.BSBBSB: Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
24. 23BBEEvery living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.BSBBSB: And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.
25. 24BBEAnd the waters were over the earth a hundred and fifty days.BSBBSB: And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.