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 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 Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation. 2 You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female. 3 Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth. 4 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground."

5 Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.

6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth. 7 Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters. 8 Clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground 9 went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah. 10 After the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened. 12 It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship— 14 they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort. 15 Pairs from all flesh with the breath of life in them went into the ship to Noah. 16 Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then Yahweh shut him in. 17 The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth. 18 The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters. 19 The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered. 20 The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered. 21 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man. 22 All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died. 23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship. 24 The waters flooded the earth one hundred fifty days.