13 Then God said to Noah, "I have decided to put an end to every creature, for the earth is filled with wickedness because of them; therefore I am going to destroy them along with the earth.

14 "Make yourself an ark of gopher  * wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and outside. 15 This is how you are to make it: The ark will be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.  *16 You are to make a roof,  * finishing the sides of the ark to within eighteen inches  * of the roof. You are to put a door in the side of the ark. Make it with lower, middle, and upper decks.

1 Then the Lord said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before me in this generation.  *

7 So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives entered the ark because of the floodwaters. 8 From the animals that are clean, and from the animals that are not clean, and from the birds and every creature that crawls on the ground, 9 two of each, male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, just as God had commanded him. 10 Seven days later the floodwaters came on the earth.

16 Those that entered, male and female of every creature, entered just as God had commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.

17 The flood continued for forty days on the earth; the water increased and lifted up the ark so that it rose above the earth. 18 The water surged and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.

23 He wiped out every living thing that was on the face of the earth, from mankind to livestock, to creatures that crawl, to the birds of the sky, and they were wiped off the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.  *

3 The water steadily receded from the earth, and by the end of 150 days the water had decreased significantly.  *4 The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.  *

6 After forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made, 7 and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. 8 Then he sent out a dove to see whether the water on the earth’s surface had gone down, 9 but the dove found no resting place for its foot. It returned to him in the ark because water covered the surface of the whole earth. He reached out and brought it into the ark to himself. 10 So Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove from the ark again. 11 When the dove came to him at evening, there was a plucked olive leaf in its beak. So Noah knew that the water on the earth’s surface had gone down. 12 After he had waited another seven days, he sent out the dove, but it did not return to him again.

13 In the six hundred first year,  * in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water that had covered the earth was dried up. Then Noah removed the ark’s cover and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.

15 Then God spoke to Noah, 16 "Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring out all the living creatures that are with you — birds, livestock, those that crawl on the earth — and they will spread over the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth."  *

8 Then God said to Noah and his sons with him, 9 "Understand that I am establishing my covenant  * with you and your descendants after you, 10 and with every living creature that is with you — birds, livestock, and all wildlife of the earth that are with you — all the animals of the earth that came out of the ark. 11 I establish my covenant with you that never again will every creature be wiped out by floodwaters; there will never again be a flood to destroy the earth."  *

13 I have placed my bow in the clouds,  * and it will be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

7 By faith Noah, after he was warned about what was not yet seen and motivated by godly fear, built an ark to deliver his family. By faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.  *

20 who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah  * while the ark was being prepared. In it a few — that is, eight people  *,*  — were saved through water. 21 Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you (not as the removal of dirt from the body,  * but the pledge  * of a good conscience toward God) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,  *22 who has gone into heaven  * and is at the right hand of God  * with angels, authorities, and powers subject to him.  *

37 As the days of Noah were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.38 For in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah boarded the ark.*39 They didn’t know until the flood came and swept them all away. This is the way the coming of the Son of Man will be.40 Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left.41 Two women will be grinding grain with a hand mill; one will be taken and one left.*