The Great Flood (2 Peter 3:1–7)
1 UDB Then Yahweh said to Noah, "I have seen that from all the people who are now living, you alone always act righteously. So I want you and all your family to go into the boat. 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 UDB Take with you seven pairs of every kind of animal that I have said I will accept for sacrifices. Take seven males and seven females. Also take one male and one female from every kind of animal that I have said that I will not accept for sacrifices. 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 UDB Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird to keep their descendants alive all over the 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 UDB Do this because seven days from now I will cause rain to fall on the earth. It will rain constantly for forty days and nights. In this way, I will destroy everything that I have made that is on 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 UDB Noah did everything that Yahweh told him to do. BSB BSB: And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
6 UDB Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came on the earth. BSB BSB: Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
7 UDB Before it started to rain, Noah and his wife and his sons and his sons' wives all went into the boat to escape from the flood water. BSB BSB: And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
8 UDB Pairs of animals, those that God said that he would accept for sacrifices and those that he would not accept for sacrifices, and pairs of birds and pairs of all the kinds of creatures that move close to the ground, BSB BSB: The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
9 UDB males and females, came to Noah and then went into the boat, just as God told Noah that they would do. BSB BSB: came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 UDB After seven days had ended, it started to rain and a flood began to cover the earth. BSB BSB: And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.
11 UDB When Noah was six hundred years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the water that is under the surface of the earth burst out, and it began to rain so hard that it was as though a dam in the sky burst open. 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 UDB Rain fell on the earth constantly for forty days and nights. BSB BSB: And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
13 UDB On the day that it started to rain, Noah went into the boat with his wife, and his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives. 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 UDB They and some of every kind of wild animal, and every kind of domestic animal, and every kind of creature that moves close to the ground, and every kind of bird, and every other creature that has wings, all entered the boat. BSB BSB: they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.
15 UDB Pairs of all creatures that breathed came to Noah and entered the boat. BSB BSB: They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.
16 UDB There were a male and a female of each creature that came to Noah, just as God had said they would do. After they were all in the boat, Yahweh shut the door. 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 UDB For forty days the water kept coming and the flood increased and lifted the boat up above the ground. 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 UDB The rushing water rose higher and higher on the earth, and the boat floated on the surface of the water. 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 UDB The water rushed higher and higher all over the earth until it covered all the mountains and everything under heaven. BSB BSB: Finally, the waters completely prevailed upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.
20 UDB Even the highest mountains were covered by more than six meters of water. BSB BSB: The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.
21 UDB As a result, every living being on the surface of the earth died. That included the birds, the domestic animals, the wild animals, and all the other creatures that move around on the ground, as well as all the people. 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 UDB Everything that breathed, that was a creature of the land, died. BSB BSB: Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
23 UDB In this way every living thing on the earth perished—the people, the larger animals, the creatures that crawl, and the birds. The only ones that remained alive were Noah and those who were in the boat with him. 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 UDB The waters remained at full flood like that on the earth for 150 days. BSB BSB: And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.