Gênesis 7

¹ And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seenIn respect to the rest of the world, and because he had a desire to serve God and live uprightly.righteous before me in this generation.

² Of everyWhich might be offered in sacrifice, of which six were for breeding and the seventh for sacrifice.clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that [are] not clean by two, the male and his female.

³ Of the foules also of the heauen by seuens, male and female, to keepe seede aliue vpon the whole earth.

⁴ For seuen dayes hence I will cause it raine vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes, and all the substance that I haue made, will I destroy from off the earth.

⁵ Noah therefore did according vnto all that the Lord commanded him.

⁶ And Noah was sixe hundreth yeeres olde, when the flood of waters was vpon the earth.

⁷ So Noah entred and his sonnes, and his wife, & his sonnes wiues with him into the Arke, because of the waters of the flood.

⁸ Of the cleane beastes, and of the vncleane beastes, and of the foules, and of all that creepeth vpon the earth,

⁹ ThereGod compelled them to present themselves to Noah, as they did before to Adam, when he gave them names, (Gen_2:19).went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

¹⁰ And so after seuen dayes the waters of the flood were vpon the earth.

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all theBoth the waters in the earth overflowed and also the clouds poured down.fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

¹² And the raine was vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes.

¹³ In the selfe same day entred Noah with Shem, and Ham and Iapheth, the sonnes of Noah, and Noahs wife, and the three wiues of his sonnes with them into the Arke.

¹⁴ They and euery beast after his kinde, and all cattell after their kinde, and euery thing that creepeth and moueth vpon the earth after his kinde, and euery foule after his kinde, euen euery bird of euery fether.

¹⁵ And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and twoEvery living thing that God would have be preserved on earth, came into the ark to Noah.of all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life.

¹⁶ And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORDSo that God's secret power defended him against the rage of the mighty waters.shut him in.

¹⁷ Then ye flood was fourtie dayes vpon the earth, and the waters were increased, and bare vp the Arke, which was lift vp aboue the earth.

¹⁸ The waters also waxed strong, and were increased exceedingly vpon the earth, and the Arke went vpon the waters.

¹⁹ The waters preuailed so exceedingly vpon the earth, that all the high mountaines, that are vnder the whole heauen, were couered.

²⁰ Fifteene cubites vpwarde did the waters preuaile, when the mountaines were couered.

²¹ Then all flesh perished that moued vpon the earth, both foule and cattell and beast, and euery thing that creepeth and moueth vpon the earth, and euery man.

²² Euery thing in whose nostrels the spirit of life did breathe, whatsoeuer they were in the drie land, they died.

²³ And every living substance was destroyedThat is, by God.which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah onlyLearn what it is to obey God only, and to forsake the multitude, (1Pe_3:20).remained [alive], and they that [were] with him in the ark.

²⁴ And the waters preuailed vpon the earth an hundreth and fiftie dayes.