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 recto que encontrei. Faz também entrar os bichos, dois de cada, macho e fêmea, excepto daquelas espécies que escolhi para serem comidos como sacrifício; desses toma sete pares de cada espécie.
3 Das aves farás entrar igualmente sete pares reprodutores. Assim se poderá manter viva cada espécie de vida após a cheia.
4 E daqui a uma semana começarei a fazer chover durante quarenta dias e noites, e tudo quanto criei com vida morrerá.
5 Noé fez tudo segundo o que Deus lhe tinha ordenado. Era da idade de 600 anos quando o dilúvio começou. Entrou então na embarcação com a sua mulher, filhos e noras, para escaparem àquela imensa cheia. Com ele estava lá dentro igualmente toda a variedade de vida animal, tanto os que podiam ser comidos em sacrifício como os que não, tanto de aves como de animais terrestres. Estavam ali pares, macho e fêmea, tal como Deus mandara.
10 Portanto, passada aquela semana, quando Noé tinha precisamente 600 anos, dois meses e dezassete dias de idade, começou a chover com uma abundância nunca vista. Era como se os reservatórios dos abismos se tivessem aberto juntamente com todas as comportas do céu. E assim esteve a chover durante quarenta dias e noites. Mas Noé, no próprio dia em que isso começou tinha entrado para aquela construção flutuante com a mulher, e os filhos Sem, Cam e Jafete, e estes com as mulheres. Com eles tinham-se também abrigado todas as espécies de bichos, domésticos e selvagens, desde as aves até aos que rastejam no solo. Estavam dois a dois, casais reprodutores, conforme o que Deus tinha indicado. Então o Senhor fechou, ele mesmo, a porta por fora.
17 Durante quarenta dias aquela enchente enorme cobriu a terra toda, primeiro as planícies, levantando a construção flutuante. Depois as águas continuaram a subir, sempre cada vez mais, de forma que a embarcação já flutuava em segurança a muitos metros acima da terra. Até que finalmente, como o dilúvio não parava, mesmo as montanhas mais altas ficaram cobertas, não se vendo, debaixo do céu, um só cimo de monte que não estivesse sob as águas, as quais os ultrapassavam em uns 7 metros ou mais.
21 E morreu todo o que tinha vida sobre a terra - aves, quadrúpedes, répteis, e, é claro, todo o ser humano. Enfim, tudo o que respirava o oxigénio do ar, que voasse ou que vivesse na terra seca - tudo desapareceu. Assim desapareceu tudo o que existia na terra, bichos e seres humanos. Apenas Noé e os que estavam com ele na embarcação sobreviveram!
24 As águas cobriram a terra durante cento e cinquenta dias.
1 And Yahweh said to Noah, Enter thou and all thy house, into the ark,for, thee, have I seen righteous before me, in this generation.
2 Of all the clean beasts, shalt thou take to thee by sevens, a male and his female,and, of the beasts that are not clean,, shall be two a male and his female.
3 Also of the bird of the heavens, by sevens, male and female,to keep alive a seed on the face of all the earth.
4 For in seven days more, I, am sending rain on the earth, forty days and forty nights,so will I wipe out all the living things which I have made, from off the face of the ground.
5 And Noah did,according to all that Yahweh commanded him.
6 Now, Noah, was six hundred years old,when, the flood, came, even waters on the earth.
7 So Noah entered, and his sons and his wife and his sons wives with him into the ark,from before the waters of the flood,
8 Of the beasts that were clean, and of the beasts that were not clean,and of the birds, and everything that creepeth on the ground,
9 two and two, went they in unto Noah, into the ark male and female,,as God commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass, in the seven days,that the waters of the flood, came on the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year, the year of the life of Noah. in the second month on the seventeenth day of the month on this day, were burst open all the fountains of the great roaring deep, and the windows of the heavens, were set open.
12 (And it came to pass that the heavy rain was on the earth,forty days and forty nights.)
13 On this selfsame day, entered Noah, and Shem and Ham and Japheth. Noahs sons,and Noahs wife, and his sons three wives with them into the ark:
14 they, and all the wild-beasts after their kind and all the tame-beasts after their kind, and all the creeping things that creep on the earth after their kind,and all the birds after their kind, every bird of every wing.
15 So they entered in unto Noah, into the ark,two and two of all flesh, wherein was the spirit of life.
16 And, they that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered, as God commanded him,and Yahweh shut him in round about.
17 And it came to pass, that the flood was forty days on the earth,and the waters increased and bare up the ark, and it was lifted high above the earth,
18 And the waters prevailed and increased greatly, on the earth,and the ark went its way on the face of the waters.
19 Yea the waters, prevailed very greatly, on the earth,so that all the high mountains became covered, that were under all the heavens:
20 fifteen cubits upwards, prevailed the waters, so that the mountains became covered.
21 And all flesh ceased to breathe that moved on the earth, of birds and of tame-beasts and of wild-beasts, and of all the swarming things that swarm on the earth,land all mankind.
22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life of all that were on the dry ground died.
23 Thus was wiped out all that existed on the face of the ground, from man unto beast unto creeping thing, and unto the bird of the heavens, thus were they wiped out from the earth,so that there was leftonly Noah and they that were with him in the ark.
24 Thus prevailed the waters on the earth,a hundred and fifty days.