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1 Then God instructed Noah, “Take your entire family, including yourself, to the boat, because I have paid attention that you are a righteous man among your peers.

2 Take seven pairs of each ritually pure animal, one male and one female to each pair, and take one pair of each ritually impure animal, one male and one female.

3 Also take seven pairs of each type of bird, male and female, so that they may live on the earth and be able to replenish it.

4 This is because in seven more days, I will cause rain to fall on the earth for forty days and nights—I will wipe out all creatures that I have made that live on the earth!”

5 So Noah did everything that God commanded him.

6 Noah was six hundred years old when this deluge flooded all the earth.

7 Then Noah, his wife, his sons and their wives entered the boat with him just before the floodwaters came.

8 and 9 The ritually pure animals and the ritually impure animals, as well as birds and reptiles, came to Noah and to the boat. They came in pairs of males and females, just as God commanded to Noah.

10 Then the floods occurred for seven days upon earth.

11 When Noah was six hundred years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the water sources on earth and in heaven opened up.

12 So rain fell on earth for forty days and forty nights.

13 Actually on this day (the seventeenth day of the second month), Noah, Shem, Ham and Yafet, along with their wives, came into the boat.

14 They entered along with all different species of animal life, including reptiles of each species that crawl on the ground, and all types of winged species that fly, every type of bird and winged creature.

15 They all came with Noah aboard the boat, pair by pair, from every type of life.

16 Male and female from every type of life came aboard, as God had commanded him; God Himself closed (the entrance) for him (Noah).

17 The flooding occurred on the earth for forty days and nights, and the floodwaters mounted up, and carried the boat and lifted it up high above the ground.

18 So the floodwaters welled up greatly on earth, and the boat floated on the surface of the waters.

19 The floodwaters continued to greatly rise on the earth’s surface, so that all the high mountains were underwater.

20 The floodwaters reached a height of fifteen amah above the mountaintops, and covered them over.1

21 All known life was eradicated—reptiles that crawl, birds, wild animals, all species of insect life that swarm over the earth, and all of mankind.

22 Every type of living being was destroyed and perished.

23 All beings, including humans, animals, reptiles and birds that lived on earth, were wiped out. Only Noah and everything that was present with him survived.

24 The floodwaters were at their maximum height on the earth for 150 days.

1. v. 20: As previously noted, the Hebrew word amah, sometimes referred to as a “cubit,” is a measurement of up to twenty-one inches in height. Using this measurement, according to the text here, the water rose up to three hundred inches (approximately twenty-five feet or 8.3 yards) above the mountaintops.