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The First Book of Moses, Called
Genesis
CHAPTER 7.
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 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 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 yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth
forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I
have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters
was upon the earth.
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 clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of
fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and
the female, as God had commanded Noah.
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,
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 the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
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 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 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all
flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
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 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 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the
earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all
the high mountains, that were under the whole heaven, were
covered.
20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the
mountains were covered.
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 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was
in the dry land, died.
23 And every living thing 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 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty
days.
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