Holy Bible (New King James Version)

6Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters were on the earth.

7So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.

8Of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth,

9two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

10And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth.

11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

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

13On the very same day Noah and Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark—

14they and every beast after its kind, all cattle after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

15And they went into the ark to Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life.

16So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.

17Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.

18The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the waters.

19And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered.

20The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.

21And all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

22All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died.

23So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive.

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

1Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

2The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were also stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

3And the waters receded continually from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.

4Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

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

6So it came to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.

7Then he sent out a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters had dried up from the earth.

8He also sent out from himself a dove, to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground.

9But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned into the ark to him, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her, and drew her into the ark to himself.

10And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent the dove out from the ark.

11Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

12So he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, which did not return again to him anymore.

13And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed the surface of the ground was dry.

14And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried.

15Then God spoke to Noah, saying,

16“Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.

17Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

18So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.

19Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.

20Then 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.

21And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.

22“While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease.”

1So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

2And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that move on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. They are given into your hand.

3Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs.

4But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

5Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man’s brother I will require the life of man.

6“Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man.

7And as for you, be fruitful and multiply; Bring forth abundantly in the earth And multiply in it.”

8Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying:

9“And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you,

10and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth.

11Thus I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

12And God said: “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: