7:1 The LORD then spoke to Noah:
Get into the boat you and your family
because you were devoted to Me
within this society.
7:2 Take seven pairs of pure creatures
male and mate
and one pair of every kind of beast
male and mate
7:3 seven pairs of every kind of bird
male and mate
to keep their species alive
throughout the land.
7:4 In seven days from now
a rain will come for forty days
and forty nights,
and wipe out every creature
living on the land.
7:5 So Noah did
what Yahweh spoke to him about.
7:6 Noah was six hundred years old
when the floodwaters came on the land.
7:7 Then Noah and his sons
wife and son’s wives
got on the boat
to escape the waters of the flood.
7:8 Pairs of pure and impure animals
birds and all creatures
that crawl along the ground
7:9 approached Noah two by two
and went into the boat
both male and female
just as the Almighty had spoken to Noah.
7:10 Then after the seven days
the floodwaters came onto the land.
7:11 In the 600th year of the life of Noah
on the 17th day of the 2nd new moon
that day an upwelling
of the depths rushed forth
and the sky’s floodgates opened up.
7:12 Then rain fell on the land
for forty days and forty nights.
7:13 On that day Noah and his sons
Shem, Ham and Japheth
together with his wife
and the wives of his three sons
boarded the boat.
7:14 With them was every creature
according to its species
those beasts that roamed the land
according to their kinds
every creature that crawled on the ground
according to its kind
and every bird with wings
according to its kind.
7:15 On they went into Noah’s boat
those creatures with the spirit of life.
7:16 Then they went inside
male and female bodies
just as the Almighty told Noah.
Then Yahweh closed him inside.
7:17 For forty days the floods
came onto the land
and as the waters rose
the boat lifted up over the ground.
7:18 As the waters rose over the land
the boat floated on the water’s surface.
7:19 They rose up over the ground
and every hill under the sky
became covered over.
7:20 The waters rose by 23 cubits
and covered the hills.
7:21 The living creatures passed away:
Birds and beasts of the field
creatures that crawl on the ground
as well as the humans.
7:22 All those living on dry land
those with living spirit inside
passed away.
7:23 All the life
on the surface of the land
humans and animals
creatures that crawl on the ground
and the birds
were wiped off
the surface of the land.
Only Noah and those with him
on the boat were left alive.
7:24 The waters inundated
the land for 150 days.
