7Genesis 7

CHAP. VII. / 1 Noah, with his familie, and the liuing creatures, enter into the Arke. 17 The beginning, increase, and continuance of the Flood.

1And the LORD saide vnto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the Arke: for thee haue I seene righteous before me, in this generation.Select Genesis 7:1

2Of euery cleane beast thou shalt take to thee by seuens, the male and his female: and of beastes that are not cleane, by two, the male and his female.Select Genesis 7:2

3Of fowles also of the aire, by seuens, the male & the female; to keepe seed aliue vpon the face of all the earth.Select Genesis 7:3

4For yet seuen dayes, and I will cause it to raine vpon the earth, fortie dayes, and forty nights: and euery liuing substance that I haue made, will I destroy, frō off the face of the earth.Select Genesis 7:4

5And Noah did according vnto all that the LORD commanded him.Select Genesis 7:5

6And Noah was sixe hundred yeeres old, when the flood of waters was vpon the earth.Select Genesis 7:6

7And Noah went in, and his sonnes, and his wife, and his sonnes wiues with him, into the Arke, because of the waters of the Flood.Select Genesis 7:7

8Of cleane beasts, & of beasts that are not cleane, & of fowles, and of euery thing that creepeth vpon the earth,Select Genesis 7:8

9There went in two and two vnto Noah into the Arke, the male & the female, as God had commanded Noah.Select Genesis 7:9

10And it came to passe after seuen dayes, that the waters of the Flood were vpon the earth.Select Genesis 7:10

11In the sixe hundredth yeere of Noahs life, in the second moneth, the seuenteenth day of the moneth, the same day, were al the fountaines of the great deepe broken vp, and the windowes of heauen were opened.Select Genesis 7:11

12And the raine was vpon the earth, fortie dayes, and fortie nights.Select Genesis 7:12

13In the selfe same day entred Noah, and Sem, and Ham, and Iapheth, the sonnes of Noah, and Noahs wife, and the three wiues of his sonnes with them, into the Arke,Select Genesis 7:13

14They, and euery beast after his kinde, & all the cattell after their kinde: and euery creeping thing that creepeth vpon the earth after his kinde, and euery foule after his kinde, euery birde of euery sort.Select Genesis 7:14

15And they went in vnto Noah into the Arke, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.Select Genesis 7:15

16And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commaunded him: and the LORD shut him in.Select Genesis 7:16

17And the Flood was fortie dayes vpon the earth, and the waters increased, and bare vp the Arke, and it was lift vp aboue the earth.Select Genesis 7:17

18And the waters preuailed, and were encreased greatly vpon the earth: and the Arke went vpon the face of the waters.Select Genesis 7:18

19And the waters preuailed exceedingly vpon the earth, and all the high hils, that were vnder the whole heauen, were couered.Select Genesis 7:19

20Fifteene cubits vpward, did the waters preuaile; and the mountaines were couered.Select Genesis 7:20

21And all flesh died, that mooued vpon the earth, both of fowle, & of cattell, and of beast, and of euery creeping thing that creepeth vpon the earth, and euery man.Select Genesis 7:21

22All in whose nosethrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.Select Genesis 7:22

23And euery liuing substance was destroyed, which was vpon the face of the ground, both man and cattell, and the creeping things, and the foule of the heauen; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah onely remained aliue, and they that were with him in the Arke.Select Genesis 7:23

24And the waters preuailed vpon the earth, an hundred and fifty dayes.Select Genesis 7:24