1 Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation. 2 Take with you seven pairs of all ^xclean animals,¹ the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate, 3 and seven pairs² of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth. 4 For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing³ that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.” 5 And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him.

11 ^zIn the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the ^afountains of the great deep burst forth, and the ^bwindows of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

17 The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. 18 The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth ^ethat all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered. 20 The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits¹ deep. 21 ^fAnd ^gall flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind. 22 Everything on the dry land ^hin whose nostrils was the breath of life died. 23 He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.