Genesis 7

NEW JERUSALEM	KING JAMES BIBLE
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 unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous 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 every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
3 (and of the birds of heaven, seven pairs, a male and its female), to preserve their species throughoutthe earth.	3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the 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 seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
5 Noah did exactly as Yahweh commanded him.	5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came, the waters over the earth.	6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon 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 Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives 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 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 one pair boarded the ark with Noah, one male and one female, as God had commanded Noah.)	9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 Seven days later the waters of the flood appeared on earth.	10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon 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 hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And heavy rain fel on earth for forty days and forty nights.	12 And the rain was 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 entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, 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 after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
15 One pair of al that was alive and had the breath of life boarded the ark with Noah,	15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is 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.
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 bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
18 The waters rose, swel ing higher above the ground, and the ark drifted away over the waters.	18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of 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 exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
20 The waters reached their peak fifteen cubits above the submerged mountains.	20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were 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 died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
22 Everything with the least breath of life in its nostrils, everything on dry land, died.	22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, 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 every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, 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 an hundred and fifty days.