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and of the animals that are not clean, two, a male and his female; <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>also of the birds of the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>sky, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>by sevens, male and female, to keep <i>their</i> seed alive on the face of all the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>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.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And Noah did according to all that Yahweh had commanded him. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>came upon the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that creeps on the ground, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>by twos they came to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Now it happened after the seven days, that the water of the flood <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>came upon the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the great deep split open, and the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>floodgates of the sky were opened. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then the rain <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>came upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>On this very 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, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind—every <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>fowl, every winged creature. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So they came to Noah into the ark, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and Yahweh closed <i>it</i> behind him. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then the flood <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>came upon the earth for forty days, and the water multiplied and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And the water prevailed and multiplied greatly upon the earth, and the ark went on the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>surface of the water. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And the water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The water prevailed <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And all flesh that <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>moved on the earth breathed its last, that is birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, as well as all mankind. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life—of all that was on the dry land—died. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Thus He blotted out <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only Noah remained, and those that were with him in the ark. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And the water prevailed upon the earth 150 days.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">2</span> Lit <i>to</i><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> Lit <i>seven seven</i><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> Lit <i>heavens</i><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> Lit <i>seven seven</i><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> Lit <i>was</i><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> Lit <i>two two</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>were</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Or <i>windows of the heavens</i><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> Lit <i>was</i><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> Lit <i>its</i><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> Lit <i>bird</i><br><span class="fnverse">17</span> Lit <i>was</i><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> Lit <i>face</i><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> Approx. 22.5 ft. or 6.75 m<br><span class="fnverse">21</span> Or <i>crept</i><br><span class="fnverse">23</span> Lit <i>all existence</i><br><span class="fnverse">23</span> Lit <i>heavens</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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