¹ And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.

² Of every clean beast you will take seven males and seven females, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, the male and his female;

³ And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.

⁴ For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth.

⁵ And Noah did everything which the Lord said he was to do.

⁶ And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.

⁷ And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.

⁸ Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth,

⁹ In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said.

¹⁰ And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;

¹² And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

¹³ On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark;

¹⁴ And with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every sort of thing which goes on the earth, and every sort of bird.

¹⁵ They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.

¹⁶ Male and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and the ark was shut by the Lord.

¹⁷ And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.

¹⁸ And the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters.

¹⁹ And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered.

²⁰ The waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all the mountains were covered.

²¹ And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man.

²² Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end.

²³ Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.

²⁴ And the waters were over the earth a hundred and fifty days.

¹ God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

² The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

³ The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.

⁴ The ship rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.

⁵ The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

⁶ It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

⁷ and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

⁸ He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,

⁹ but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ship; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.

¹⁰ He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ship.

¹¹ The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from the earth.

¹² He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.

¹³ It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ship, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.

¹⁴ In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

¹⁵ God spoke to Noah, saying,

¹⁶ "Go out of the ship, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

¹⁷ Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."

¹⁸ Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.

¹⁹ Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

²⁰ Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

²¹ Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.

²² While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."