Bible: Genesis 6:13-8:22
7:5 And Noah did all 34 that the
7:6 Noah 35 was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed 36 the earth. 7:7 Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because 37 of the floodwaters. 7:8 Pairs 38 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, 39 just as God had commanded him. 40 7:10 And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth. 41
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 42 burst open and the floodgates of the heavens 43 were opened. 7:12 And the rain fell 44 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. 45 7:14 They entered, 46 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. 47 7:15 Pairs 48 of all creatures 49 that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah. 7:16 Those that entered were male and female, 50 just as God commanded him. Then the
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 51 the earth, and the ark floated 52 on the surface of the waters. 7:19 The waters completely inundated 53 the earth so that even 54 all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered. 7:20 The waters rose more than twenty feet 55 above the mountains. 56 7:21 And all living things 57 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 58 in its nostrils died. 7:23 So the
8:1 But God remembered 64 Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over 65 the earth and the waters receded. 8:2 The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, 66 and the rain stopped falling from the sky. 8:3 The waters kept receding steadily 67 from the earth, so that they 68 had gone down 69 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. 70 8:5 The waters kept on receding 71 until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible. 72
8:8 Then Noah 76 sent out a dove 77 to see if the waters had receded 78 from the surface of the ground. 8:9 The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered 79 the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah 80 in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, 81 and brought it back into the ark. 82 8:10 He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark. 8:11 When 83 the dove returned to him in the evening, there was 84 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, 85 but it did not return to him this time. 86
8:13 In Noah’s six hundred and first year, 87 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 88 the surface of the ground was dry. 8:14 And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth 89 was dry.
8:15 Then God spoke to Noah and said, 8:16 “Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you. 8:17 Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out 90 every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase 91 and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!” 92
8:18 Noah went out along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives. 8:19 Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups.
8:20 Noah built an altar to the
8:22 “While the earth continues to exist, 101
planting time 102 and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
and day and night will not cease.”