7:1 The Lord said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation. ¹  7:2 You must take with you seven ²  of every kind of clean animal, ³  the male and its mate, ⁴  two of every kind of unclean animal, the male and its mate, 7:3 and also seven ⁵  of every kind of bird in the sky, male and female, ⁶  to preserve their offspring ⁷  on the face of the earth. 7:4 For in seven days ⁸  I will cause it to rain ⁹  on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.”

7:5 And Noah did all ¹⁰  that the Lord commanded him.

7:6 Noah ¹¹  was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed ¹²  the earth. 7:7 Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because ¹³  of the floodwaters. 7:8 Pairs ¹⁴  of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground, 7:9 male and female, came into the ark to Noah, ¹⁵  just as God had commanded him. ¹⁶  7:10 And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth. ¹⁷ 

7:11 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 ¹⁸  burst open and the floodgates of the heavens ¹⁹  were opened. 7:12 And the rain fell ²⁰  on the earth forty days and forty nights.

7:13 On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons’ three wives. ²¹  7:14 They entered, ²²  along with every living creature after its kind, every animal after its kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, everything with wings. ²³  7:15 Pairs ²⁴  of all creatures ²⁵  that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah. 7:16 Those that entered were male and female, ²⁶  just as God commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.

7:17 The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth. 7:18 The waters completely overwhelmed ²⁷  the earth, and the ark floated ²⁸  on the surface of the waters. 7:19 The waters completely inundated ²⁹  the earth so that even ³⁰  all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered. 7:20 The waters rose more than twenty feet ³¹  above the mountains. ³²  7:21 And all living things ³³  that moved on the earth died, including the birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all humankind. 7:22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life ³⁴  in its nostrils died. 7:23 So the Lord ³⁵  destroyed ³⁶  every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. ³⁷  They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived. ³⁸  7:24 The waters prevailed over ³⁹  the earth for 150 days.

8:1 But God remembered ⁴⁰  Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over ⁴¹  the earth and the waters receded. 8:2 The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, ⁴²  and the rain stopped falling from the sky. 8:3 The waters kept receding steadily ⁴³  from the earth, so that they ⁴⁴  had gone down ⁴⁵  by the end of the 150 days. 8:4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat. ⁴⁶  8:5 The waters kept on receding ⁴⁷  until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible. ⁴⁸ 

8:6 At the end of forty days, ⁴⁹  Noah opened the window he had made in the ark ⁵⁰  8:7 and sent out a raven; it kept flying ⁵¹  back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.

8:8 Then Noah ⁵²  sent out a dove ⁵³  to see if the waters had receded ⁵⁴  from the surface of the ground. 8:9 The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered ⁵⁵  the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah ⁵⁶  in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, ⁵⁷  and brought it back into the ark. ⁵⁸  8:10 He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark. 8:11 When ⁵⁹  the dove returned to him in the evening, there was ⁶⁰  a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth. 8:12 He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again, ⁶¹  but it did not return to him this time. ⁶² 

8:13 In Noah’s six hundred and first year, ⁶³  in the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that ⁶⁴  the surface of the ground was dry.