1Yahweh said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I see that you are just in this generation. 2Of all the clean animals, you are to take with you seven of each kind, male and female, and a pair of unclean animals, a male and a female. 3In the same way for the birds of the air, take seven and seven, male and female, to keep their kind alive over all the earth, 4for in seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will blot out from the face of the earth all the living creatures I have created.”
5Noah did all as Yahweh had commanded. 6Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters covered the earth.
7So Noah went into the ark with his children, his wife and his sons’ wives to escape the waters of the flood. 8Clean animals and also unclean, birds, and all that crawls on the earth went into the ark with Noah; 9they went two and two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. 10And after seven days the waters of the flood were over the earth.
11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month and on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth 12and there was a downpour on the earth lasting forty days and forty nights. 13On that same day Noah went into the ark, as well as Shem, Ham and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his daughters-in-law. 14All the animals according to their kind also entered into the ark, all the cattle, all the creeping things that crawl on the earth and all the birds according to their kind; all that flies and everything with wings. 15They came to Noah in the ark, two by two, all creatures that had the breath of life in them. 16And they that went in were male and female just as God had commanded.
Then Yahweh closed the door on Noah. 17The flood lasted for forty days on the earth. The waters rose and lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.
18The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
19The waters rose more and more above the earth and all the high mountains under the heavens were submerged. 20The waters had risen and covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet. 21Every living thing that moved on the earth died: birds, cattle, animals, everything that swarmed on the earth—and all humankind.
22All on the face of the earth that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. 23Every living being on the face of the earth, humans and animals, and creatures that crawl and the birds of the air were wiped off the earth. Only Noah was left and those that were with him in the ark.
