1 Finalmente, chegou o dia em que o Senhor disse a Noé: "Entra na embarcação com toda a tua família, porque, de toda a humanidade, tu és o único ser reto que encontrei. 2 Faz também entrar sete pares, macho e fêmea, de todos os animais cerimonialmente limpos, e um só par, macho e fêmea, dos animais não puros. 3 Das aves farás entrar igualmente sete pares reprodutores. Assim, se poderá manter viva cada espécie após a cheia. 4 Daqui a uma semana começarei a fazer chover, durante 40 dias e 40 noites, e tudo quanto criei com vida morrerá."

5 Noé fez tudo segundo o que o Senhor lhe tinha ordenado. 6 Era da idade de 600 anos, quando o dilúvio começou. 7 Entrou então na embarcação com a sua mulher, filhos e noras, para escaparem àquela imensa cheia. 8,9 Com ele estava lá dentro, igualmente, toda a variedade de vida animal, tanto dos animais cerimonialmente limpos como não; tanto aves como animais terrestres. Estavam ali pares, macho e fêmea, tal como Deus mandara.

10 Passada aquela semana, as águas do dilúvio começaram a cair sobre a Terra. 11 No dia 17 do segundo mês, do ano em que Noé completou 600 anos, começou a chover torrencialmente, como nunca se tinha visto. Era como se os reservatórios dos abismos se tivessem aberto, juntamente com todas as comportas do céu. 12 E assim choveu durante 40 dias e 40 noites.

13 Contudo, Noé, no dia em que a chuva começou, tinha entrado naquela construção flutuante com a mulher e os filhos, Sem, Cam e Jafete, e estes com as mulheres. 14 Com eles tinham-se abrigado também todas as espécies de animais, domésticos e selvagens, desde aves aos que rastejam no solo. 15,16 Entraram dois a dois, de todos os seres que respiram, conforme o que Deus tinha indicado. Um macho e uma fêmea de cada espécie. Então o Senhor fechou, ele mesmo, a porta por fora.

17 Durante 40 dias, aquela enchente enorme cobriu a Terra toda; primeiro as planícies, levantando a construção flutuante. 18 Depois as águas continuaram a subir, sempre cada vez mais, 19 de forma que a embarcação já flutuava em segurança, muitos metros acima da terra. Até que, finalmente, como o dilúvio não parava, mesmo as montanhas mais altas ficaram cobertas. 20 Não se via, debaixo do céu, um só monte que não estivesse sob as águas, as quais os ultrapassavam em uns 7 metros ou mais. 21 E morreu tudo o que tinha vida sobre a terra: aves, quadrúpedes, répteis e, é claro, todo o ser humano. 22 Tudo o que respirava, quer voasse ou vivesse na terra seca, desapareceu. 23 Assim, desapareceu tudo o que existia na Terra, animais e seres humanos. Apenas Noé e os que estavam com ele na embarcação sobreviveram.

24 As águas cobriram a terra durante 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.