1 And the LORD said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and your whole house, because I have seen you to be righteous before me in this generation.
2 From every clean animal take for yourself seven and seven, a male and its female; and from the animals that are not clean, two, a male and its female;
3 and from the birds of the heavens as well, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the face of the whole earth.
4 For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe out from the face of the ground every living being I have made."
5 And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came, waters upon the earth.
7 Noah went into the ark, and with him his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, to escape the waters of the flood.
8 From the clean animals and from the animals that are not clean, from the birds and from all that creeps on the ground,
9 they came to Noah into the ark two by two, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.
10 After the seven days the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month—on that day all the springs of the great deep broke open, and the windows of the heavens were thrown open.
12 The downpour came on the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 That same day Noah entered the ark, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah's sons, and Noah's wife and his sons' three wives with them—
14 they and every wild animal after its kind, all the cattle after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every flying creature after its kind, every bird, every winged thing.
15 Two by two of all flesh in which was the breath of life, they came to Noah into the ark.
16 Those that came in were male and female of all flesh; they came as God had commanded him. Then the LORD closed the door behind him.
17 For forty days the flood was upon the earth; the waters grew and bore up the ark, and it was lifted high above the earth.
18 The waters gained strength and grew greatly upon the earth, and the ark drifted on the surface of the waters.
19 The waters gained strength more and more upon the earth, until all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.
20 Fifteen cubits above them the waters rose, and the mountains were covered.
21 All flesh that moved on the earth perished: birds, cattle, wild animals, every swarming creature that swarms on the earth, and all mankind.
22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of everything on the dry land, died.
23 So he wiped out every living being on the face of the ground, from man to cattle to creeping things to the birds of the heavens; they were wiped out from the earth. Only Noah remained, and those with him in the ark.
24 And the waters held their strength upon the earth for a hundred and fifty days.