Bible Gateway passage: Genesis 7 - New International Version (2024)

7The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family,^(A) because I have found you righteous^(B) in this generation. ²Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean^(C) animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, ³and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive^(D) throughout the earth. ⁴Seven days from now I will send rain^(E) on the earth^(F) for forty days^(G) and forty nights,^(H) and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.^(I)”

⁵And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.^(J)

⁶Noah was six hundred years old^(K) when the floodwaters came on the earth. ⁷And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark^(L) to escape the waters of the flood. ⁸Pairs of clean and unclean^(M) animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, ⁹male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.^{(N) 10}And after the seven days^(O) the floodwaters came on the earth.

¹¹In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life,^(P) on the seventeenth day of the second month^(Q)—on that day all the springs of the great deep^(R) burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens^(S) were opened. ¹²And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.^(T)

¹³On that very day Noah and his sons,^(U) Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.^{(V) 14}They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind,^(W) everything with wings. ¹⁵Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.^{(X) 16}The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah.^(Y) Then the Lord shut him in.

¹⁷For forty days^(Z) the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. ¹⁸The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. ¹⁹They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered.^{(AA) 20}The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.^{[a][b] (AB) 21}Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.^{(AC) 22}Everything on dry land that had the breath of life^(AD) in its nostrils died. ²³Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth.^(AE) Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.^(AF)

²⁴The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.^(AG)

Footnotes

1. Genesis 7:20 That is, about 23 feet or about 6.8 meters
2. Genesis 7:20 Or rose more than fifteen cubits, and the mountains were covered

Cross references

1. Genesis 7:1 : S Ge 6:18; Mt 24:38; Lk 17:26-27; Heb 11:7; 1Pe 3:20; 2Pe 2:5
2. Genesis 7:1 : Ge 6:9; Eze 14:14
3. Genesis 7:2 : ver 8; Ge 8:20; Lev 10:10; 11:1-47; Dt 14:3-20; Eze 44:23; Hag 2:12; Ac 10:14-15
4. Genesis 7:3 : Ge 6:20
5. Genesis 7:4 : Ge 8:2
6. Genesis 7:4 : 1Ki 13:34; Jer 28:16
7. Genesis 7:4 : Nu 13:25; Dt 9:9; 1Sa 17:16; 1Ki 19:8
8. Genesis 7:4 : ver 12, 17; Ex 24:18; 32:1; 34:28; Dt 9:9, 11, 18, 25; 10:10; Job 37:6, 13; Mt 4:2
9. Genesis 7:4 : S Ge 6:7, 13
10. Genesis 7:5 : S Ge 6:22
11. Genesis 7:6 : S Ge 5:32
12. Genesis 7:7 : S Ge 6:18
13. Genesis 7:8 : S ver 2
14. Genesis 7:9 : S Ge 6:22
15. Genesis 7:10 : S ver 4
16. Genesis 7:11 : S Ge 5:32
17. Genesis 7:11 : Ge 8:4, 14
18. Genesis 7:11 : S Ge 1:7; Job 28:11; Ps 36:6; 42:7; Pr 8:24; Isa 51:10; Eze 26:19
19. Genesis 7:11 : Ge 8:2; 2Ki 7:2; Ps 78:23; Isa 24:18; Mal 3:10
20. Genesis 7:12 : S ver 4; S 1Sa 12:17; S Job 28:26
21. Genesis 7:13 : Ge 8:16; 1Pe 3:20; 2Pe 2:5
22. Genesis 7:13 : S Ge 6:18
23. Genesis 7:14 : S Ge 1:11
24. Genesis 7:15 : ver 8-9; Ge 6:19
25. Genesis 7:16 : S Ge 6:22
26. Genesis 7:17 : S ver 4
27. Genesis 7:19 : Ps 104:6
28. Genesis 7:20 : Ge 8:4-5; 2Pe 3:6
29. Genesis 7:21 : S Ge 6:7, 13; 2Pe 3:6
30. Genesis 7:22 : S Ge 1:30
31. Genesis 7:23 : Job 14:19; 21:18; 22:11, 16; Ps 90:5; Isa 28:2; Mt 24:39; Lk 17:27; 1Pe 3:20; 2Pe 2:5
32. Genesis 7:23 : Heb 11:7
33. Genesis 7:24 : Ge 8:3; Job 12:15