| New Living Translation | Berean Study Bible |
| 1When everything was ready, the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the boat with all your family, for among all the people of the earth, I can see that you alone are righteous. | 1Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. |
| 2Take with you seven pairs—male and female—of each animal I have approved for eating and for sacrifice, and take one pair of each of the others. | 2You 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; |
| 3Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird. There must be a male and a female in each pair to ensure that all life will survive on the earth after the flood. | 3and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth. |
| 4Seven days from now I will make the rains pour down on the earth. And it will rain for forty days and forty nights, until I have wiped from the earth all the living things I have created.” | 4For 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.” |
| 5So Noah did everything as the LORD commanded him. | 5And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him. |
| 6Noah was 600 years old when the flood covered the earth. | 6Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth. |
| 7He went on board the boat to escape the flood—he and his wife and his sons and their wives. | 7And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. |
| 8With them were all the various kinds of animals—those approved for eating and for sacrifice and those that were not—along with all the birds and the small animals that scurry along the ground. | 8The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground |
| 9They entered the boat in pairs, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah. | 9came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. |
| 10After seven days, the waters of the flood came and covered the earth. | 10And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth. |
| 11When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky. | 11In 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. |
| 12The rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights. | 12And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. |
| 13That very day Noah had gone into the boat with his wife and his sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—and their wives. | 13On 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— |
| 14With them in the boat were pairs of every kind of animal—domestic and wild, large and small—along with birds of every kind. | 14they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature. |
| 15Two by two they came into the boat, representing every living thing that breathes. | 15They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life. |
| 16A male and female of each kind entered, just as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD closed the door behind them. | 16And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in. |
| 17For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper, covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth. | 17For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth. |
| 18As the waters rose higher and higher above the ground, the boat floated safely on the surface. | 18So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters. |
| 19Finally, the water covered even the highest mountains on the earth, | 19Finally, the waters completely inundated the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered. |
| 20rising more than twenty-two feet above the highest peaks. | 20The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits. |
| 21All the living things on earth died—birds, domestic animals, wild animals, small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the people. | 21And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind. |
| 22Everything that breathed and lived on dry land died. | 22Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. |
| 23God wiped out every living thing on the earth—people, livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and the birds of the sky. All were destroyed. The only people who survived were Noah and those with him in the boat. | 23And 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. |
| 24And the floodwaters covered the earth for 150 days. | 24And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days. |
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