THE VOYAGE OF THE BIG BOAT
Genesis 6:13-22--7:1-24
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before
me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 14 Make thee an ark
of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch
it within and without with pitch. 15 And this [is the fashion]
which thou shalt make it [of]: The length of the ark [shall be]
three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the
height of it thirty cubits. 16 A window shalt thou make to the
ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of
the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; [with] lower, second,
and third [stories] shalt thou make it. 17 And, behold, I, even
I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all
flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life, from under heaven; [and]
every thing that [is] in the earth shall die. 18 But with thee
will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark,
thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every [sort]
shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep [them] alive with thee;
they shall be male and female. 20 Of fowls after their kind, and
of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth
after his kind, two of every [sort] shall come unto thee, to keep
[them] alive. 21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is
eaten, and thou shalt gather [it] to thee; and it shall be for
food for thee, and for them. 22 Thus did Noah; according to all
that God commanded him, so did he. 7:1 And the LORD said unto
Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I
seen righteous before me in this generation. 2 Of every 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 fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the
female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. 4 For
yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty
days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made
will I destroy from off the face of the earth. 5 And Noah did
according unto all that the LORD commanded him. 6 And Noah [was]
six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 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.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are] not clean, and of
fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 9 There
went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the
female, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And it came to pass after
seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon 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 the fountains
of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were
opened. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty
nights. 13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham,
and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three
wives of his sons with them, into the ark; 14 They, and every
beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind,
and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. 15 And
they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two 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
LORD shut him in. 17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth;
and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up
above the earth. 18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased
greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the
waters. 19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth;
and all the high hills, that [were] under the whole heaven, were
covered. 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the
mountains were covered. 21 And all flesh died that moved upon the
earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: 22
All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of all that [was]
in the dry [land], died. 23 And every living substance was
destroyed 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 only remained
[alive], and they that [were] with him in the ark. 24 And the
waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
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