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and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and its mate; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>and seven pairs of the birds of the air also, male and female, to keep their kind alive on the face of all the earth. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>For in seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>And Noah did all that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> had commanded him.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>And Noah with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>And after seven days the waters of the flood came on the earth.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>The rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>On the very same day Noah with his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons entered the ark, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>they and every wild animal of every kind, and all domestic animals of every kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every bird of every kind—every bird, every winged creature. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> shut him in.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>The flood continued forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>The waters swelled and increased greatly on the earth; and the ark floated on the face of the waters. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>The waters swelled so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>the waters swelled above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all human beings; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>everything on dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, human beings and animals and creeping things and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>And the waters swelled on the earth for one hundred fifty days.</span></p> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. 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