Genesis 7

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Yahweh said to Noah, 'Go aboard the ark, you and all your household, for you alone of yourcontemporaries do I see before me as an upright man.	1 And the Lord said to him: Go in thou and all thy house into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation.
2 Of every clean animal you must take seven pairs, a male and its female; of the unclean animals youmust take one pair, a male and its female	2 Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and female.
3 (and of the birds of heaven, seven pairs, a male and its female), to preserve their species throughoutthe earth.	3 But of the beasts that are unclean two and two, the male and female. Of the fowls also of the air seven and seven,the male and the female: that seed may be saved upon the face of the whole earth.
4 For in seven days' time I shal make it rain on earth for forty days and forty nights, and I shall wipeevery creature I have made off the face of the earth.'	4 For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.
5 Noah did exactly as Yahweh commanded him.	5 And Noe did all things which the Lord had commanded him.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came, the waters over the earth.	6 And he was six hundred years old, when the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.
7 Noah with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives boarded the ark to escape the waters of the flood.	7 And Noe went in and his sons, his wife and the wives of his sons with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 (Of the clean animals and the animals that are not clean, of the birds and all that creeps along theground,	8 And of the beasts clean and unclean, and of fowls, and of every thing that moveth upon the earth,
9 one pair boarded the ark with Noah, one male and one female, as God had commanded Noah.)	9 Two and two went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as the Lord had commanded Noe.
10 Seven days later the waters of the flood appeared on earth.	10 And after seven days were passed, the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, and on the seventeenth day of themonth, that very day al the springs of the great deep burst through, and the sluices of heaven opened.	11 In the six hundreth year of the life of Noe in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the flood gates of heaven were open:
12 And heavy rain fel on earth for forty days and forty nights.	12 And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 That very day Noah and his sons Shem, Ham and Japheth boarded the ark, with Noah's wife and thethree wives of his sons,	13 In the selfsame day Noe, and Sem, and Cham, and Japheth his sons: his wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark:
14 and with them every species of wild animal, every species of cattle, every species of creeping thingsthat creep along the ground, every species of bird, everything that flies, everything with wings.	14 They and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and every thing that moveth upon the earth according to its kind, and every fowl according to its kind, and every fowl according to its kind, all birds, and all that fly.
15 One pair of al that was alive and had the breath of life boarded the ark with Noah,	15 Went in to Noe into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein was the breath of life.
16 and those that went aboard were a male and female of all that was alive, as God had commandedhim. Then Yahweh shut him in.	16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in on the outside.
17 The flood lasted forty days on earth. The waters swelled, lifting the ark until it floated off the ground.	17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from earth.
18 The waters rose, swel ing higher above the ground, and the ark drifted away over the waters.	18 For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled all on the face of the earth: and the ark was carried upon the waters.
19 The waters rose higher and higher above the ground until al the highest mountains under the wholeof heaven were submerged.	19 And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.
20 The waters reached their peak fifteen cubits above the submerged mountains.	20 The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered.
21 And al living things that stirred on earth perished; birds, cattle, wild animals, all the creaturesswarming over the earth, and all human beings.	21 And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth: and all men.
22 Everything with the least breath of life in its nostrils, everything on dry land, died.	22 And all things wherein there is the breath of life on the earth, died.
23 Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out, people, animals, creeping things and birds;they were wiped off the earth and only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.	23 And he destroyed all the substance that was upon the earth, from man to beast, and the creeping things and fowls of the air: and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noe only remained, and they that were with him in the ark.
24 The waters maintained their level on earth for a hundred and fifty days.	24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.