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These are the generations of Noah. Noah, a righteous man, had been perfected among his family. Noah walked with God.

And Noah fathered three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

And God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupted. For all flesh had corrupted its way on 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 along with the earth.

Make an ark of cyprus timbers for yourself. You shall make rooms in the ark; and you shall cover it with asphalt inside and out.

And you shall make it this way: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its breadth 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 its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third stories.

And behold, I, even I, am bringing a flood of waters on the earth in order to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under the heavens. Everything which is on the earth shall die.

And 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 alive with you; they shall be male and female;

from the birds according to its kind, and from the cattle according to its kind, from every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind. Two from each shall come in to you to keep alive.

And take for yourself all food that is eaten, and gather to yourself. And let it be for you and for them for food.

And Noah did so, according to all that God commanded him, so he did.

And Jehovah 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 to yourself from every clean animal by sevens, male and female, and from the animal that is not clean by two, male and female.

And take of the fowl of the heavens by sevens, male and female, to keep alive seed on the face of the earth.

For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights and will wipe away every living substance that I have made from off the face of the earth.

And Noah did according to all that Jehovah commanded him.

Noah was a son of six hundred years, and the flood of waters was on the earth.

And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

And they went in to Noah into the ark, male and female of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of fowl, and of every thing that creeps on the earth,

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

And it was after the seven days, 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 risen, and the windows of the heavens were opened up.

And the rain was on 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, went into the ark;

they, and every animal according to its kind, and every beast according to its kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth according to its kind; and every fowl according to its kind, every bird of every wing.

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

And those going in went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him. And Jehovah shut him within.

And the flood was on 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 greatly increased on the earth. And the ark floated on the face of the waters.

And the waters prevailed, exceedingly violent on the earth, and all the high mountains under the heavens were covered.

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

And all flesh that moved on the earth died: the fowl, and cattle, and beast, and every swarming thing that swarms on the earth, and all mankind.

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

And every living thing which was on the face of the earth was wiped away, from man to cattle, and to the creeping things, and the fowl of the heavens. And they were wiped off from the earth,and only Noah was left, and those who werewith him in the ark.

And the waters prevailed over 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.

And the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were stopped, and the rain from the heavens was restrained.

And the waters retreated from the earth, going and retreating. And the waters diminished at the end of a hundred and fifty days.

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

And the waters were going and falling until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

And it happened, at the end of forty days, even Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.

And he sent out a raven, and it went out, going out and returning until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

He also sent out from him the dove, 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 all the earth. And 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, behold! In her mouth was a newly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had gone down from off the earth.

And he waited 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, 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 from you every living thing that is with you, of all flesh, of fowl, of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creeps on the earth; and let them swarm on the earth, and bear, and multiply on the earth.

And Noah went out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons wives with him;

every animal, every creeping thing, and every fowl; all which creeps on the earth. They went forth out of the ark according to their families.