Genesis
6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the
earth, and daughters were born unto them,
6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they [were] fair; and
they took them wives of all which they chose.
6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he
also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the
sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare [children] to them,
the same [became] mighty men which [were] of old, men of renown.
6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that]
every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.
6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved
him at his heart.
6:7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of
the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the
air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
6:9 These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man [and] perfect in
his generations, [and] Noah walked with God.
6:10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence.
6:12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh
had corrupted his way upon the earth.
6:13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the
earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them
with the earth.
6:14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and
shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
6:15 And this [is the fashion] which thou shalt make it [of]: The length of the
ark [shall be] three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the
height of it thirty cubits.
6:16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it
above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; [with] lower,
second, and third [stories] shalt thou make it.
6:17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to
destroy all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life, from under heaven; [and]
every thing that [is] in the earth shall die.
6:18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the
ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
6:19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every [sort] shalt thou
bring into the ark, to keep [them] alive with thee; they shall be male and
female.
6:20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every
creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every [sort] shall come unto
thee, to keep [them] alive.
6:21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather
[it] to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
6:22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
Chapter 7
7:1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark;
for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his
female: and of beasts that [are] not clean by two, the male and his female.
7:3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed
alive upon the face of all the earth.
7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days
and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy
from off the face of the earth.
7:5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
7:6 And Noah [was] six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the
earth.
7:7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him,
into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
7:8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are] not clean, and of fowls, and of
every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
7:9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female,
as God had commanded Noah.
7:10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were
upon the earth.
7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the
seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great
deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
7:13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons
of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the
ark;
7:14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind,
and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every
fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
7:15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein
[is] the breath of life.
7:16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had
commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
7:17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and
bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
7:18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and
the ark went upon the face of the waters.
7:19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high
hills, that [were] under the whole heaven, were covered.
7:20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were
covered.
7:21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle,
and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and
every man:
7:22 All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of all that [was] in the
dry [land], died.
7:23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the
ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the
heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained [alive],
and they that [were] with him in the ark.
7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
Chapter 8
8:1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that
[was] with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the
waters asswaged;
8:2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and
the rain from heaven was restrained;
8:3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of
the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
8:4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the
month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
8:5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth
[month], on the first [day] of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
8:6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of
the ark which he had made:
8:7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters
were dried up from off the earth.
8:8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from
off the face of the ground;
8:9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto
him into the ark, for the waters [were] on the face of the whole earth: then he
put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
8:10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of
the ark;
8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth [was] an
olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the
earth.
8:12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned
not again unto him any more.
8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first
[month], the first [day] of the month, the waters were dried up from off the
earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the
face of the ground was dry.
8:14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was
the earth dried.
8:15 And God spake unto Noah, saying,
8:16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives
with thee.
8:17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that [is] with thee, of all flesh,
[both] of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and
multiply upon the earth.
8:18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with
him:
8:19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, [and] whatsoever
creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and
of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will
not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's
heart [is] evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing
living, as I have done.
8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and
summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
