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Genesis 7

¹Then YHWH said to Noah, "Go, you and all your household into the ark, because you I have seen righteous before me in this generation. ²From all the clean beasts take seven pairs, each with its mate, and from the beasts which are not clean take two, each with its mate. ³Also from the birds of heaven, seven pairs, male and female, so there will be seed on the face of all the land. ⁴Because in seven days I will make it rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe out all that lives that I have made from upon the face of the ground." ⁵And Noah did all that YHWH commanded him.

⁶Now Noah was 600 years old when the flood of water was upon the earth. ⁷So Noah, his sons, his wife and his son's wives went to the ark, from the face of the flood. ⁸From the clean beasts and from the beasts which were not clean and from the birds and from everything that creeps on the ground ⁹two went in to Noah into the ark, male and female as God commanded Noah. ¹⁰And after seven days, the waters came upon the land. ¹¹In the 600th year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the 17th day of the month, in that day the fountains of the great Tehom were split and the windows of heaven were opened. ¹²And the rain was upon the land forty days and forty nights. ¹³In that very day Noah, and with him Shem, Ham and Japheth (sons of Noah), and Noah's wife, and his three daughters-in-law, went into the ark. ¹⁴They and every living creature according to its kind and all the cattle according to their kinds, and all the creeping things that creep on the earth according to their kinds, and all the birds according to their kind, each bird and each winged creature. ¹⁵And they came to Noah into the ark, two by two from all flesh which had in it a living spirit. ¹⁶And those who came in were male and female from all flesh, as God commanded Noah. And YHWH closed it up after him. ¹⁷And the flood was upon the land for 40 days, and the waters surged up and carried the ark, and the ark rose above the land. ¹⁸And the waters became great, and grew very, very much on the earth, and the ark was carried along on the waters. ¹⁹And the waters increased very greatly on the land, and they covered all the high mountains which were under all the heavens. ²⁰The waters rose till they were 15 cubits above the mountain tops. ²¹And all flesh that creeps on the earth, and birds, and cattle, and living creatures and from all swarming creatures that swarm on the land, and all the people died. ²²Everything that had living breath in its nostrils, from all which was on the dry land perished. ²³So he [YHWH] wiped out every living thing which was on the face of the ground, from man to beast to creeping thing to the birds of the heavens, and they were wiped out from the land. Only Noah and those who were with him remained. ²⁴And the waters rose greatly against the land for 150 days.

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