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Noah and the Flood
1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come
thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen
righteous before me in this generation.
2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens,
the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by
two, the male and his female.
3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the
female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon
the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living
substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face
of the earth.
5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded
him.
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of
waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his
sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of
the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and
of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the
male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters
of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the
second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day
were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the
windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty
nights.
13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham,
and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the
three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the
cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after
his kind, every bird of every sort.
15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two
of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all
flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the
waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up
above the earth.
18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly
upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the
waters.
19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth;
and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven,
were covered.
20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the
mountains were covered.
21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of
fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all
that was in the dry land, died.
23 And every living substance was destroyed which was
upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the
creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they wee
destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and
they that were with him in the ark.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and
fifty days.
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