1 ¶ And the LORD said to Noah, Come into the ark, you and all your family; because you alone have I found righteous before me in this generation.

2 Of every clean beast take seven pair with you, the male and his female: and two of the beasts that are not clean, the male and his female.

3 Also take the birds of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

4 For in seven days I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

5 ¶ And Noah did according to all that the LORD commanded him.

6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came 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 birds, and of every thing that creeps 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 all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of heaven were opened.

12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 ¶ On the very same 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 into the ark;

14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps 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 bore up the ark, and it rose 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 And the mountains were covered; as the waters rose fifteen cubits above them.

21 ¶ And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, including birds, and cattle, and beasts, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, and every man:

22 Everything that was on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of life, died.

23 And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the birds of the air; and they were blotted out from the earth: and only Noah, and those who were with him in the ark, remained alive.

24 And the waters covered the earth for one hundred and fifty days.