The Great Flood (2 Peter 3:1–7)
1 CPDV And the Lord said to him: “Enter the ark, you and all your house. For I have seen you to be just in my sight, within this generation. BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
2 CPDV From all the clean animals, take seven and seven, the male and the female. Yet truly, from animals that are unclean, take two and two, the male and the female. BSB BSB: 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;
3 CPDV But also from the birds of the air, take seven and seven, the male and the female, so that offspring may be saved upon the face of the whole earth. BSB BSB: 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.
4 CPDV For from that point, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. And I will wipe away every substance that I have made, from the surface of the earth.” BSB BSB: 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.”
5 CPDV Therefore, Noah did all things just as the Lord had commanded him. BSB BSB: And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
6 CPDV And he was six hundred years old when the waters of the great flood inundated the earth. BSB BSB: Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
7 CPDV And Noah entered into the ark, and his sons, his wife, and the wives of his sons with him, because of the waters of the great flood. BSB BSB: And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
8 CPDV And from the animals both clean and unclean, and from the birds, and from everything that moves upon the earth, BSB BSB: The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
9 CPDV two by two they were brought into the ark to Noah, male and female, just as the Lord had instructed Noah. BSB BSB: came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 CPDV And when seven days had passed, the waters of the great flood inundated the earth. BSB BSB: And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.
11 CPDV In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great abyss were released, and the floodgates of heaven were opened. BSB BSB: 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.
12 CPDV And rain came upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. BSB BSB: And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
13 CPDV On the very same day, Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark. BSB BSB: 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—
14 CPDV They and every animal according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and everything that moves upon the earth in their kind, and every flying thing according to its kind, all the birds and all that can fly, BSB BSB: they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.
15 CPDV entered the ark to Noah, two by two out of all that is flesh, in which there was the breath of life. BSB BSB: They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.
16 CPDV And those that entered went in male and female, from all that is flesh, just as God had instructed him. And then the Lord closed him in from the outside. BSB BSB: And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
17 CPDV And the great flood occurred for forty days upon the earth. And the waters were increased, and they lifted the ark high above the land. BSB BSB: For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
18 CPDV For they overflowed greatly, and they filled everything on the surface of the earth. And then the ark was carried across the waters. BSB BSB: So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
19 CPDV And the waters prevailed beyond measure across the earth. And all the lofty mountains under the whole heaven were covered. BSB BSB: Finally, the waters completely prevailed upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.
20 CPDV The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered. BSB BSB: The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.
21 CPDV And all flesh was consumed which moved upon the earth: flying things, animals, wild beasts, and all moving things that crawl upon the ground. And all men, BSB BSB: And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.
22 CPDV and everything in which there is the breath of life on earth, died. BSB BSB: Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
23 CPDV And he wiped away all substance that was upon the earth, from man to animal, the crawling things just as much as the flying things of the air. And they were wiped away from the earth. But only Noah remained, and those who were with him in the ark. BSB BSB: 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.
24 CPDV And the waters possessed the earth for one hundred and fifty days. BSB BSB: And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.