Genesis 7:1-12 ▼

1 And YHWH says to Noah, “Come, you and all your house, into the Ark, for I have seen you [are] righteous before Me in this generation;

2 you take seven pairs from all the clean beasts to yourself, a male and its female; and of the beasts which are not clean—two, a male and its female;

3 also, seven pairs from [each] bird of the heavens, a male and a female, to keep alive seed on the face of all the earth;

4 for after seven more days I am sending rain on the earth [for] forty days and forty nights, and have wiped away all the substance that I have made from off the face of the ground.”

5 And Noah does according to all that YHWH has commanded him.

6 And Noah [is] a son of six hundred years, and the flood of waters has been on the earth.

7 And Noah goes—and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him—into the Ark, out of the presence of the waters of the flood;

8 from the clean beast, and from the beast that [is] not clean, and from the bird, and of everything that is creeping on the ground,

9 they have come to Noah two by two into the Ark, a male and a female, as God has commanded Noah.

10 And it comes to pass, after seven days, that waters of the flood have been on the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all [the] fountains of the great deep have been broken up, and the network of the heavens has been opened,

12 and the shower is on the earth [for] forty days and forty nights.