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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Genesis 7 Catholic Public Domain Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/7.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/7-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CPDV</a> > Genesis 7</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a 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">Catholic Public Domain Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/genesis/7-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Great Flood<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_peter/3.htm">2 Peter 3:1–7</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And the Lord said to him: “Enter the ark, you and all your house. For I have seen you to be just in my sight, within this generation. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>From all the clean animals, take seven and seven, the male and the female. Yet truly, from animals that are unclean, take two and two, the male and the female. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But also from the birds of the air, take seven and seven, the male and the female, so that offspring may be saved upon the face of the whole earth. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For from that point, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. And I will wipe away every substance that I have made, from the surface of the earth.” <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Therefore, Noah did all things just as the Lord had commanded him.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And he was six hundred years old when the waters of the great flood inundated the earth. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And Noah entered into the ark, and his sons, his wife, and the wives of his sons with him, because of the waters of the great flood. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And from the animals both clean and unclean, and from the birds, and from everything that moves upon the earth, <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>two by two they were brought into the ark to Noah, male and female, just as the Lord had instructed Noah. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And when seven days had passed, the waters of the great flood inundated the earth. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great abyss were released, and the floodgates of heaven were opened. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And rain came upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>On the very same day, Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They and every animal according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and everything that moves upon the earth in their kind, and every flying thing according to its kind, all the birds and all that can fly, <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>entered the ark to Noah, two by two out of all that is flesh, in which there was the breath of life. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And those that entered went in male and female, from all that is flesh, just as God had instructed him. And then the Lord closed him in from the outside.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the great flood occurred for forty days upon the earth. And the waters were increased, and they lifted the ark high above the land. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For they overflowed greatly, and they filled everything on the surface of the earth. And then the ark was carried across the waters. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And the waters prevailed beyond measure across the earth. And all the lofty mountains under the whole heaven were covered. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And all flesh was consumed which moved upon the earth: flying things, animals, wild beasts, and all moving things that crawl upon the ground. And all men, <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and everything in which there is the breath of life on earth, died. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And he wiped away all substance that was upon the earth, from man to animal, the crawling things just as much as the flying things of the air. And they were wiped away from the earth. But only Noah remained, and those who were with him in the ark. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And the waters possessed the earth for one hundred and fifty days.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../genesis/6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>