Genesis 7

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.	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.
2 Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate; and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate;	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
3 and seven pairs of the birds of the air also, male and female, to keep their kind alive upon the face of all the earth.	3 (and of the birds of heaven, seven pairs, a male and its female), to preserve their species throughoutthe earth.
4 For in seven days I will send rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground."	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.'
5 And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.	5 Noah did exactly as Yahweh commanded him.
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth.	6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came, the waters over the earth.
7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him went into the ark, to escape the waters of the flood.	7 Noah with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives boarded the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,	8 (Of the clean animals and the animals that are not clean, of the birds and all that creeps along theground,
9 two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.	9 one pair boarded the ark with Noah, one male and one female, as God had commanded Noah.)
10 And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.	10 Seven days later the waters of the flood appeared on 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 fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.	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.
12 And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.	12 And heavy rain fel on earth for forty days and forty nights.
13 On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark,	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,
14 they and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every bird of every sort.	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.
15 They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.	15 One pair of al that was alive and had the breath of life boarded the ark with Noah,
16 And they that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.	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.
17 The flood continued forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.	17 The flood lasted forty days on earth. The waters swelled, lifting the ark until it floated off the ground.
18 The waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark floated on the face of the waters.	18 The waters rose, swel ing higher above the ground, and the ark drifted away over the waters.
19 And the waters prevailed so mightily upon the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered;	19 The waters rose higher and higher above the ground until al the highest mountains under the wholeof heaven were submerged.
20 the waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep.	20 The waters reached their peak fifteen cubits above the submerged mountains.
21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, birds, cattle, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm upon the earth, and every man;	21 And al living things that stirred on earth perished; birds, cattle, wild animals, all the creaturesswarming over the earth, and all human beings.
22 everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.	22 Everything with the least breath of life in its nostrils, everything on dry land, died.
23 He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.	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.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.	24 The waters maintained their level on earth for a hundred and fifty days.