Genesis 6-9: The Flood
Genesis 6:1 Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the
land, and daughters were born to them,
6:2 that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and
they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.
6:3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever,
because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty
years."
6:4 The Nephilim were in the land in those days, and also afterward, when the
sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to
them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
6:5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the land, and
that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6:6 And the LORD was sorry that He had made man in the land, and He
was grieved in His heart.
6:7 And the LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the
face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the
sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."
6:8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
6:9 These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a
righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.
6:10 And Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
6:11 Now the people of the earth were corrupt in the sight of God, and the land
was filled with violence.
6:12 And God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all
flesh had corrupted their way in the land.
6:13 Then God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before Me;
for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am
about to destroy them with the land.
6:14 "Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark
with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch.
6:15 "And this is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three
hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
6:16 "You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from
the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with
lower, second, and third decks.
6:17 "And behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the land,
to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under the sky;
everything that is in the land shall perish.
6:18 "But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the
ark-- you and your sons and your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
6:19 "And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of
every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall
be male and female.
6:20 "Of the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their
kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind
shall come to you to keep them alive.
6:21 "And as for you, take for yourself some of all food which is
edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be for food for you and
for them."
6:22 Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.
Genesis 7:1 Then the LORD said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all your
household; for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in
this time.
7:2 "You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens, a male and
his female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female;
7:3 also of the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and female, to keep
offspring alive on the face of all the land.
7:4 "For after seven more days, I will send rain on the land forty
days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land every
living thing that I have made."
7:5 And Noah did according to all that the LORD had commanded him.
7:6 Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water came upon the land.
7:7 Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him entered
the ark because of the water of the flood.
7:8 Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything
that creeps on the ground,
7:9 there went into the ark to Noah by twos, male and female, as God had
commanded Noah.
7:10 And it came about after the seven days, that the water of the flood came
upon the land.
7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the
seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great
deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.
7:12 And the rain fell upon the land for forty days and forty nights.
7:13 On the very same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of
Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the
ark,
7:14 they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their
kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the land after its kind,
and every bird after its kind, all sorts of birds.
7:15 So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which was the
breath of life.
7:16 And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had
commanded him; and the LORD closed it behind him.
7:17 Then the flood came upon the land for forty days; and the water
increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the land.
7:18 And the water prevailed and increased greatly upon the land; and
the ark floated on the surface of the water.
7:19 And the water prevailed more and more upon the land, so that all
the high hills everywhere under the sky were covered.
7:20 The water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the hills were covered.
7:21 And all flesh that moved on the land perished, birds and cattle
and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the land, and all
mankind;
7:22 of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of
the spirit of life, died.
7:23 Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the
land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky, and they
were blotted out from the land; and only Noah was left, together with
those that were with him in the ark.
7:24 And the water prevailed upon the land one hundred and fifty days.
Genesis 8:1 But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle
that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the land, and
the water subsided.
8:2 Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed,
and the rain from the sky was restrained;
8:3 and the water receded steadily from the land, and at the end of
one hundred and fifty days the water decreased.
8:4 And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark
rested upon the foothills of Ararat.
8:5 And the water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth
month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the hills became visible.
8:6 Then it came about at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window
of the ark which he had made;
8:7 and he sent out a raven, and it flew here and there until the water was
dried up from the land.
8:8 Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the water was abated from the
face of the land;
8:9 but the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, so she
returned to him into the ark; for the water was on the surface of all the land.
Then he put out his hand and took her, and brought her into the ark to
himself.
8:10 So he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent out the dove from
the ark.
8:11 And the dove came to him toward evening; and behold, in her beak was a
freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was abated from the land.
8:12 Then he waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; but she
did not return to him again.
8:13 Now it came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month,
on the first of the month, the water was dried up from the land. Then
Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the
ground was dried up.
8:14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the land
was dry.
8:15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying,
8:16 "Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons'
wives with you.
8:17 "Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with
you, birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the land, that
they may breed abundantly in the land, and be fruitful and multiply in
the land."
8:18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with
him.
8:19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves
on the land, went out by their families from the ark.
8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and
of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
8:21 And the LORD smelled the soothing aroma; and the LORD said to Himself,
"I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of
man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living
thing, as I have done.
8:22 "While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, And cold and
heat, And summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease."
Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be
fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
9:2 "And the fear of you and the terror of you shall be on every beast
of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on
the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given.
9:3 "Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all
to you, as I gave the green plant.
9:4 "Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its
blood.
9:5 "And surely I will require your lifeblood; from every beast I will
require it. And from every man, from every man's brother I will require
the life of man.
9:6 "Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in
the image of God He made man.
9:7 "And as for you, be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth abundantly
and multiply in it."
9:8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
9:9 "Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with
your descendants after you;
9:10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle,
and every beast of the land with you; of all that comes out of the ark,
even every beast of the earth.
9:11 "And I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never
again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood
to destroy the people of the earth."
9:12 And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I am making
between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all
successive generations;
9:13 I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant
between Me and the earth.
9:14 "And it shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the land, that
the bow shall be seen in the cloud,
9:15 and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every
living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to
destroy all flesh.
9:16 "When the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to
remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all
flesh that is on the earth."
9:17 And God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant which I
have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth."
9:18 Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and
Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan.
9:19 These three were the sons of Noah; and from these the whole earth
was populated.
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