Genesis 7
7gen 7:1Then the LORD said to Noah, "Come - you and all your household - into the ark, because I've seen that you alone are righteous in this generation.H3068H559H5146H935H1004H8392H7200H6662H6440H2088H17552You are to take with you seven pairs of every clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of the unclean animals, a male and its mate;H2889H929H3947H7651H7651H376H802H929H2889H1931H8147H376H8023along with seven pairs of the flying birds, male and female, in order to keep their offspring alive on the surface of all the earth.H5775H8064H7651H7651H2145H5347H2421H2233H2421H6440H7764Seven days from now I'll send rain on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights, and I'll destroy every living creature that I've made."H5750H7651H3117H4305H776H705H3117H705H3915H3605H3351H6213H4229H5921H6440H1275Noah did everything that the LORD commanded.H5146H6213H3068H66806Noah was 600 years old when water began to flood the earth.H5146H8337H3967H8141H1121H3999H4325H7767Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives entered the ark with him before the flood waters arrived.H5146H935H1121H802H1121H802H8392H6440H4325H39998From both clean and unclean animals, from birds, and from everything that crawls on the ground,H2889H929H929H2889H5775H7430H1279two by two, male and female, they entered the ark to join Noah, just as God had commanded.H935H8147H8147H5146H8392H2145H5347H834H430H6680H514610Seven days later, the flooding started.H7651H3117H4325H3999H77611On the seventeenth day of the second month, when Noah was 600 years old, all the springs of the great deep burst open, the floodgates of the heavens were opened,H8141H8337H3967H8141H5146H2416H8145H2320H7651H6240H3117H2320H2088H3117H4599H7227H8415H1234H699H8064H660512and it rained throughout the earth for 40 days and 40 nights.H1653H776H705H3117H705H391513On that very day, Noah entered the ark with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah's wife, his sons' three wives with them,H6106H3117H935H5146H8035H2526H3315H1121H5146H5146H802H7969H802H1121H839214every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and every creature that has wings.H1992H2416H4327H929H4327H7431H7430H776H4327H5775H4327H6833H367115Two of each living creature entered the ark with Noah.H935H5146H8392H8147H8147H1320H834H7307H241616The males and females of each living creature entered the ark in accordance with God's command. Then the Lord shut them inside.H935H935H2145H5347H1320H430H6680H3068H546217The flood continued throughout the earth for 40 days, while the flood waters increased, lifting the ark so that it rose above the surface of the earth.H3999H705H3117H776H4325H7235H5375H8392H7311H77618The flood waters continued to surge, increasing throughout the earth, while the ark floated on the surface of the flood water.H4325H1396H7235H3966H776H8392H3212H6440H432519The flood water surged even higher throughout the earth, until all the highest mountains under the sky were covered.H4325H1396H3966H3966H776H1364H2022H8478H8064H368020The flood waters rose 22 and a half feet above the mountains.H6240H2568H520H4605H4325H1396H2022H368021Every living thing on earth perished - birds, livestock, wildlife, all creatures that swarm over the earth, and all human beings.H1320H1478H7430H776H5775H929H2416H8318H8317H776H12022Everything that breathed and everything that lived on dry land died.H639H5397H7307H2416H2724H419123All existing creatures that lived on the surface of the ground were annihilated, from humans to livestock, from crawling creatures to birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah remained, along with those who were with him in the ark.H3351H4229H6440H127H120H929H7431H5775H8064H4229H776H5146H389H7604H834H839224The flood waters surged over the earth for 150 days.H4325H1396H776H3967H2572H3117
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