Genesis 7 · Parashat Noach

And the Lord said to Noaĥ, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before Me in this generation.

Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, male and female: and of beasts that are not clean by twos, male and female.

Of birds of the air, also by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

For in another seven days, 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.

And Noaĥ did according to all that the Lord commanded him.

And Noaĥ was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

And Noaĥ went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of birds and of everything that creeps upon the earth,

there went in two and two to Noaĥ into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noaĥ.

And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

In the six hundredth year of Noaĥ’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken open, and the windows of heaven were opened.

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

In the selfsame day Noaĥ, and Shem, and Ḥam, and Yefet, the sons of Noaĥ, and Noaĥ’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ark;

they, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

And they went in to Noaĥ into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.

And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.

And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was raised above the earth.

And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.

Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

And all flesh perished that moved upon the earth, both of birds, and of cattle, and of beasts, and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, and all mankind:

all in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

And He destroyed every living substance which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and the birds of the heaven; they were destroyed from the earth: and Noaĥ only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.