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href="../genesis/6.htm" title="Genesis 6">◄</a> Genesis 7 <a href="../genesis/8.htm" title="Genesis 8">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/genesis/7.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And Noah did all that the <span class="name">Lord</span> commanded him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the <span class="name">Lord</span> shut him in.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, about 23 feet or about 6.8 meters">a</a></sup></span> <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or rose more than fifteen cubits, and the mountains were covered">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, about 23 feet or about 6.8 meters</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>rose more than fifteen cubits, and the mountains were covered</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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