Genesis 7 (NET)

Genesis 7:1¹The Lord said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 7:2²You must take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, the male and its mate, two of every kind of unclean animal, the male and its mate,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 7:3³and also seven pairs of every kind of bird in the sky, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of the entire earth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 7:4⁴For in seven days I will cause it to rain 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.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 7:5⁵And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 7:6⁶Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed the earth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 7:7⁷Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because of the floodwaters.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 7:8⁸Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 7:9⁹male and female, came into the ark to Noah, just as God had commanded him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 7:10¹⁰And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 7:11¹¹In 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 open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 7:12¹²And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 7:13¹³On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons’ three wives.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 7:14¹⁴They entered, 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 7:15¹⁵Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 7:16¹⁶Those that entered were male and female, just as God commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 7:17¹⁷The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 7:18¹⁸The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 7:19¹⁹The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 7:20²⁰The waters rose more than 20 feet above the mountains.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 7:21²¹And all living things that moved on the earth died, including the birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all humankind.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 7:22²²Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 7:23²³So the Lord destroyed 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. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 7:24²⁴The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 days.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions