71 Then the Lord said to Noah , "Enter the ark , you and all your household , for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this time . 2 "You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens , a male and his female ; and of the animals that are not clean two , a male and his female ; 3 also of the birds of the sky , by sevens , male and female , to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth . 4 "For after seven more days , I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights ; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made ."
5 Noah did according to all that the Lord had commanded him. 6 Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water came upon the earth . 7 Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him entered the ark because e of the water of the flood . 8 Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that creeps on the ground , 9 there went into the ark to Noah by twos , male and female , as God had commanded Noah . 10 It came about after the seven days , that the water of the flood came upon the earth .
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life , in the second month , on the seventeenth e day of the month , on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open , and the floodgates of the sky were opened . 12 The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights .
13 On the very same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth , the sons of Noah , and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark , 14 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 , all sorts of birds . 15 So they went into the ark to Noah , by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life . 16 Those that entered , male and female of all flesh , entered as God had commanded him; and the Lord closed it behind him.
17 Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days , and the water increased and lifted up the ark , so that it rose above e the earth . 18 The water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth , and the ark floated on the surface of the water . 19 The water prevailed more and more upon the earth , so that all the high mountains everywhere under the heavens were covered . 20 The water prevailed fifteen e cubits higher , and the mountains were covered .
21 All flesh that moved on the earth perished , birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth , and all mankind ; 22 of all that was on the dry land , all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life , died . 23 Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the land , from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky , and they were blotted out from the earth ; and only Noah was left , together with those that were with him in the ark . 24 The water prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days .
