Noahs Ark
These are
the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect in his
generations. Noah walked with God.
And Noah fathered three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with
violence.
And God looked upon the earth. And, behold, it was corrupted! For all
flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.
And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the
earth is filled with violence through them. And, behold, I will destroy
them with the earth.
Make an ark of cyprus timbers. You shall make rooms in the ark. And you
shall pitch it inside and outside with pitch.
And this is the way you shall make it. The length of the ark shall be
three hundred cubits, the breadth of it shall be fifty cubits and its
height thirty cubits.
You shall make a window in the ark, and you shall finish it above to a
cubit. And you shall set the door of the ark in the side of it. You
shall make it with lower, second and third stories.
And behold! I, even I, am bringing a flood of waters upon the earth in
order to destroy all flesh (in which is the breath of life) from under
the heavens. Everything which is in the earth shall die.
But I will establish My covenant with you. And you shall come into the
ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.
And you shall bring into the ark two of every kind , of every living
thing of all flesh, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and
female.
Two of every kind shall come to you to keep them alive; of fowls after
their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of
the earth after its kind.
And take for yourself all food that is eaten, and you shall gather for
yourself. And it shall be for food, for you and for them.
Noah did so, according to all that God commanded him, so he did.
And the LORD said to Noah, You
and all your house come into the ark, for I have seen you righteous
before Me in this generation.
You shall take with you every clean animal by sevens, the male and
female. And take two of the animals that are not clean, the male and
female.
Also take of the fowls of the air by sevens, the male and the female,
to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
For in seven more days I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty
days and forty nights. And I will destroy from off the face of the
earth every living thing that I have made.
And Noah did according to all that the LORD commanded him.
And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon
the earth.
And Noah went in. And his sons and his wife and his sons' wives went in
with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
Of the clean animals, and of the animals that were not clean, and of
the fowls, and of everything that creeps on the earth,
two by two they went in to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God
had commanded Noah.
And it happened after seven days that the waters of the flood came into
being on the earth.
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, in the
seventeenth day of the month, in this day all the fountains of the
great deep were broken up, and the windows of the heavens were opened
up.
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
In this
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 into
the ark.
They went in, and every animal after its kind, and all the cattle after
their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth after
its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird of every sort.
And they went in to Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, in
which is the breath of life.
And they that entered, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had
commanded him. And the LORD shut him in.
And the flood was upon the earth forty days. And the waters increased
and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
And the waters prevailed and were increased greatly upon the earth. And
the ark floated upon the face of the waters.
And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth. And all the high
hills that were under the whole heaven were covered.
The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were
covered.
And all flesh that moved upon the face of the earth died, of birds, of
cattle, of animal, and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the
earth; and every man,
all who breathed the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land,
died.
And every living thing which was on the face of the earth was
destroyed, from man to cattle, and to the creeping things, and the
fowls of the heavens. And they were destroyed from the earth, and only
Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.
And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
And God
remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle which were
with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and
the waters subsided.
Also the fountains of
the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and rain from heaven
was restrained.
And the waters returned
from off the earth continually. And after the end of the hundred and
fifty days the waters had gone down.
And in the seventh
month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the
mountains of Ararat.
And the waters
decreased continually until the tenth month . And the tops of the
mountains were seen in the tenth month on the first day of the month.
And it happened, at the
end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
And he sent forth a
raven, and it went out, going out and returning until the waters were
dried up from off the earth.
He also sent forth a
dove from him, to see if the waters had gone down from off the face of
the earth.
But the dove found no
rest for the sole of her foot. And she returned to him into the ark,
for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. Then he put out his
hand and took her, and pulled her in to him into the ark.
And he waited yet
another seven days. And again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.
And the dove came in to
him in the evening. And, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked
off. So Noah knew that the waters had gone down from off the earth.
And he waited yet
another seven days, and sent forth the dove. And she did not return
again to him any more.
And it happened in the
six hundred and first year, at the beginning, on the first of the
month, that the waters were dried up from off the earth. And Noah
removed the covering of the ark and looked. And, behold, the face of
the earth was dried!
And in the second
month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
And God spoke to Noah,
saying,
Go out of the ark, you
and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives with you.
Bring out with you
every living thing that is with you, of all flesh, of fowl, of cattle,
and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, so that they
may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful and multiply upon
the earth.
And Noah went out, and
his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.
Every animal, every
fowl, and every creeping thing, all which creeps upon the earth after
their families, went forth out of the ark.
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