7Next GOD said to Noah, "Now board the ship, you and all your family—out of everyone in this generation, you're the righteous one.H3068H559H5146H935H1004H8392H7200H6662H6440H2088H17552"Take on board with you seven pairs of every clean animal, a male and a female; one pair of every unclean animal, a male and a female;H2889H929H3947H7651H7651H376H802H929H2889H1931H8147H376H8023and seven pairs of every kind of bird, a male and a female, to insure their survival on Earth.H5775H8064H7651H7651H2145H5347H2421H2233H2421H6440H7764In just seven days I will dump rain on Earth for forty days and forty nights. I'll make a clean sweep of everything that I've made."H5750H7651H3117H4305H776H705H3117H705H3915H3605H3351H6213H4229H5921H6440H1275Noah did everything GOD commanded him.H5146H6213H3068H66806Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters covered the Earth.H5146H8337H3967H8141H1121H3999H4325H7767Noah and his wife and sons and their wives boarded the ship to escape the flood.H5146H935H1121H802H1121H802H8392H6440H4325H39998Clean and unclean animals, birds, and all the crawling creaturesH2889H929H929H2889H5775H7430H1279came in pairs to Noah and to the ship, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.H935H8147H8147H5146H8392H2145H5347H834H430H6680H514610In seven days the floodwaters came.H7651H3117H4325H3999H77611It was the six-hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month that it happened: all the underground springs erupted and all the windows of Heaven were thrown open.H8141H8337H3967H8141H5146H2416H8145H2320H7651H6240H3117H2320H2088H3117H4599H7227H8415H1234H699H8064H660512Rain poured for forty days and forty nights.H1653H776H705H3117H705H391513That's the day Noah and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, accompanied by his wife and his sons' wives, boarded the ship.H6106H3117H935H5146H8035H2526H3315H1121H5146H5146H802H7969H802H1121H839214And with them every kind of wild and domestic animal, right down to all the kinds of creatures that crawl and all kinds of birds and anything that flies.H1992H2416H4327H929H4327H7431H7430H776H4327H5775H4327H6833H367115They came to Noah and to the ship in pairs—everything and anything that had the breath of life in it,H935H5146H8392H8147H8147H1320H834H7307H241616male and female of every creature came just as God had commanded Noah. Then GOD shut the door behind him.H935H935H2145H5347H1320H430H6680H3068H546217The flood continued forty days and the waters rose and lifted the ship high over the Earth.H3999H705H3117H776H4325H7235H5375H8392H7311H77618The waters kept rising, the flood deepened on the Earth, the ship floated on the surface.H4325H1396H7235H3966H776H8392H3212H6440H432519The flood got worse until all the highest mountains were covered—H4325H1396H3966H3966H776H1364H2022H8478H8064H368020the high water mark reached twenty feet above the crest of the mountains.H6240H2568H520H4605H4325H1396H2022H368021Everything died. Anything that moved—dead. Birds, farm animals, wild animals, the entire teeming exuberance of life—dead. And all people—dead.H1320H1478H7430H776H5775H929H2416H8318H8317H776H12022Every living, breathing creature that lived on dry land died;H639H5397H7307H2416H2724H419123he wiped out the whole works—people and animals, crawling creatures and flying birds, every last one of them, gone. Only Noah and his company on the ship lived.H3351H4229H6440H127H120H929H7431H5775H8064H4229H776H5146H389H7604H834H839224The floodwaters took over for 150 days.H4325H1396H776H3967H2572H3117