¹ And Jehovah said to Noaḥ, Come thou^◦ and all thy house into^▵ the ark^◦; for I have seen thee, that thou art just before Me in this generation.

² Of every clean beast thou shalt take for thee seven by seven, a man^◦ and his wife^*; and of the beast that is not clean, this^◦ by twos, a man^◦ and his wife.

³ Of the fowl of the heavens also seven by seven, male and female, to cause seed to live on the faces of all the earth.

⁴ For in yet seven days I^▵ will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and every being^◦* that I have made will I wipe·​·away from on the faces of the ground.

⁵ And Noaḥ did according·​·to all that Jehovah commanded him.

⁶ And Noaḥ was a son of six hundred years, and the flood of waters was on the earth.

⁷ And Noaḥ came·​·in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with^◦ him, into^▵ the ark^◦, from before the waters of the flood.

⁸ Of the clean beast, and of the beast that is not^◦ clean, and of the fowl, and of all that creeps on the ground,

⁹ there came·​·in two and two to^▵ Noaḥ into^▵ the ark^◦, male and female, as^◦ God had commanded Noaḥ.

¹⁰ And it was, after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were on the earth.

¹¹ In the year six hundred of the years of the life of Noaḥ, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day all the fountains of the great^◦ abyss were split·​·open, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

¹² And the shower was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

¹³ In this same day came Noaḥ, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noaḥ, and the wife of Noaḥ, and the three wives of his sons with^◦ them, into^▵ the ark^◦.

¹⁴ They^◦, and every wild·​·animal according·​·to^▵ its kind, and every beast according·​·to^▵ its kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the land according·​·to^▵ its kind; and every fowl according·​·to^▵ its kind, every bird^*, every winged thing.

¹⁵ And they came·​·in to^▵ Noaḥ into^▵ the ark^◦, two and two of all flesh in which^◦ is the spirit of lives

¹⁶ And they who came·​·in, came·​·in male and female of all flesh, as^◦ God had commanded him. And Jehovah shut behind^▫ him.

¹⁷ And the flood was forty days on the earth, and the waters multiplied, and bore·​·up the ark^◦, and it was lifted·​·high from on the earth.

¹⁸ And the waters prevailed, and were multiplied exceedingly on the earth; and the ark^◦ went on the faces of the waters.

¹⁹ And the waters prevailed very exceedingly on the earth, and all the lofty mountains were covered that were under all the heavens.

²⁰ Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail, and covered the mountains.

²¹ And all flesh expired that creeps on the land, as·​·to the fowl, and as·​·to the beast, and as·​·to the wild·​·animal, and as·​·to every crawling thing that crawls on the land; and all man.

²² All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of lives, of all that was in the dry^◦ land, died.

²³ And He wiped·​·away every being^◦ that was on the faces of the ground, from man even·​·to beast, even·​·to creeping thing, and even·​·to the fowl of the heavens; and they were wiped·​·away from the land; and Noaḥ only^▵ was·​·left, and that which was with^◦ him in the ark^◦.

²⁴ And the waters prevailed on the earth fifty and a hundred days.

¹ But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

² Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

³ In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

⁴ For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

⁵ and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

⁶ and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;

⁷ and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked

⁸ (for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):

⁹ the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

¹⁰ but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

¹¹ whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don't bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord.

¹² But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

¹³ receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

¹⁵ forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

¹⁶ but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.

¹⁷ These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

¹⁸ For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

¹⁹ promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

²⁰ For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

²¹ For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

²² But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire."