Genesis 7

NEW JERUSALEM	NEW AMERICAN 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 Then the LORD said to Noah: "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for you alone in this age have I found to be truly just.
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 animal, take with you seven pairs, a male and its mate; and of the unclean animals, one pair, a male and its mate;
3 (and of the birds of heaven, seven pairs, a male and its female), to preserve their species throughoutthe earth.	3 likewise, of every clean bird of the air, seven pairs, a male and a female, and of all the unclean birds, one pair, a male and a female. Thus you will keep their issue alive over 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 Seven days from now I will bring rain down on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and so I will wipe out from the surface of the earth every moving creature that I have made."
5 Noah did exactly as Yahweh commanded him.	5 Noah did just as the LORD had commanded him.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came, the waters over the earth.	6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood waters came 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 Together with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, Noah went 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 the clean animals and the unclean, of the birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,
9 one pair boarded the ark with Noah, one male and one female, as God had commanded Noah.)	9 (two by two) male and female entered the ark with Noah, just as the LORD had commanded him.
10 Seven days later the waters of the flood appeared on earth.	10 As soon as the seven days were over, the waters of the flood came 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, on the seventeenth day of the month: it was on that day that All the fountains of the great abyss burst forth, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.
12 And heavy rain fel on earth for forty days and forty nights.	12 For forty days and forty nights heavy rain poured down on the earth.
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 On the precise day named, Noah and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of Noah's sons had entered 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 together with every kind of wild beast, every kind of domestic animal, every kind of creeping thing of the earth, and every kind of bird.
15 One pair of al that was alive and had the breath of life boarded the ark with Noah,	15 Pairs of all creatures in which there was the breath of life entered the ark with Noah.
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 Those that entered were male and female, and of all species they came, as God had commanded Noah. Then 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 The flood continued upon the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark, so that it rose above the earth.
18 The waters rose, swel ing higher above the ground, and the ark drifted away over the waters.	18 The swelling waters increased greatly, but the ark floated on the surface 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 Higher and higher above the earth rose the waters, until all the highest mountains everywhere were submerged,
20 The waters reached their peak fifteen cubits above the submerged mountains.	20 the crest rising fifteen cubits higher than the submerged mountains.
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 All creatures that stirred on earth perished: birds, cattle, wild animals, and all that swarmed on the earth, as well as all mankind.
22 Everything with the least breath of life in its nostrils, everything on dry land, died.	22 Everything on dry land with the faintest breath of life in its nostrils died out.
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 The LORD wiped out every living thing on earth: man and cattle, the creeping things and the birds of the air; all were wiped out from the earth. Only Noah and those with him in the ark were left.
24 The waters maintained their level on earth for a hundred and fifty days.	24 The waters maintained their crest over the earth for one hundred and fifty days,