Genesis 7 Genesis 7
The flood and the nations
The Great Flood (2 Peter 3:1–7)
1 DRA And the Lord said to him: Go in thou and all thy house into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in 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 DRA Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, 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 DRA But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and the female. Of the fowls also of the air seven and seven, the male and the female: that seed 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 DRA For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face 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 DRA And Noe did all things which the Lord had commanded him. BSB BSB: And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
6 DRA And he was six hundred years old, when the waters of the flood overflowed the earth. BSB BSB: Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
7 DRA And Noe went in and his sons, his wife and the wives of his sons with him into the ark, because of the waters of the 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 DRA And of beasts clean and unclean, and of fowls, and of every thing that moveth upon the earth, BSB BSB: The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
9 DRA Two and two went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as the Lord had commanded Noe. BSB BSB: came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 DRA And after the seven days were passed, the waters of the flood overflowed the earth. BSB BSB: And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.
11 DRA In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the flood gates 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 DRA And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. BSB BSB: And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
13 DRA In the selfsame day Noe, and Sem, and Cham, and Japheth his sons: his wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, went into 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 DRA They and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and every thing that moveth upon the earth according to its kind, and every fowl according to its kind, all birds, and all that fly, BSB BSB: they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.
15 DRA Went in to Noe into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein 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 DRA And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in on 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 DRA And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth. 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 DRA For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled all on the face of the earth: and the ark was carried upon 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 DRA And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all the high 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 DRA 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 DRA And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth: 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 DRA And all things wherein there is the breath of life on the earth, died. BSB BSB: Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
23 DRA And he destroyed all the substance that was upon the earth, from man even to beast, and the creeping things and fowls of the air: and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noe only remained, and they that 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 DRA And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days. BSB BSB: And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.