1 O Senhor disse a Noé: "Entre na arca com toda a sua família, pois vejo que, de todas as pessoas na terra, apenas você é justo. 2 Leve com você sete casais, macho e fêmea, de cada espécie de animal puro, e um casal, macho e fêmea, de cada espécie de animal impuro. 3 Leve também sete casais de cada espécie de ave. Cada casal deve ter um macho e uma fêmea para garantir que todas as espécies sobreviverão na terra depois do dilúvio. 4 Daqui a sete dias, farei chover sobre a terra. Choverá por quarenta dias e quarenta noites, até que eu tenha eliminado da terra todos os seres vivos que criei".

5 Noé fez tudo exatamente como o Senhor lhe havia ordenado.

6 Noé tinha 600 anos quando o dilúvio cobriu a terra. 7 Entrou na arca, junto com a mulher, os filhos e as mulheres deles, para escapar do dilúvio. 8 Entraram com eles animais de todas as espécies: os puros e os impuros, as aves e todos os animais que rastejam pelo chão. 9 Entraram na arca em pares, macho e fêmea, como Deus tinha ordenado a Noé. 10 Depois de sete dias, vieram as águas do dilúvio e cobriram a terra.

11 Quando Noé tinha 600 anos, no décimo sétimo dia do segundo mês, todas as fontes subterrâneas de água jorraram da terra, e a chuva caiu do céu em grandes temporais 12 e continuou sem parar por quarenta dias e quarenta noites.

13 Naquele mesmo dia, Noé tinha entrado na arca com a esposa, os filhos, Sem, Cam e Jafé, e as mulheres deles. 14 Entraram com eles na arca casais de todas as espécies de animais: animais domésticos e selvagens, grandes e pequenos, e aves de toda espécie. 15 Entraram de dois em dois na arca, representando todos os seres vivos que respiram. 16 Um macho e uma fêmea de cada espécie entraram, como Deus tinha ordenado a Noé. Então o Senhor fechou a porta.

17 Durante quarenta dias, as águas do dilúvio se tornaram cada vez mais profundas, cobriram o solo e elevaram a arca bem acima da terra. 18 Enquanto as águas subiam cada vez mais acima do solo, a arca flutuava em segurança em sua superfície. 19 Por fim, as águas cobriram até as montanhas mais altas da terra 20 e se elevaram quase sete metros*7.20 Em hebraico, 15 côvados. acima dos picos mais altos. 21 Todos os seres vivos que havia na terra morreram: as aves, os animais domésticos, os animais selvagens, os animais que rastejavam pelo chão e todos os seres humanos. 22 Tudo que respirava e vivia em terra firme morreu. 23 Deus exterminou todos os seres vivos que havia na terra: os seres humanos, os animais domésticos, os animais que rastejavam pelo chão e as aves do céu. Todos foram destruídos. Apenas Noé e os que estavam com ele na arca sobreviveram. 24 E as águas do dilúvio cobriram a terra por 150 dias.

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.*7.2 by sevens: Heb. seven seven 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.*7.3 by sevens: Heb. seven seven 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.*7.4 destroy: Heb. blot out

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.*7.10 after…: or, on the seventh day

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.*7.11 windows: or, floodgates 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.*7.14 sort: Heb. wing 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.*7.22 the breath…: Heb. the breath of the spirit of life 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.