1 Disse Jeová a Noé: Entra na arca, tu e toda a tua casa, porque vi que eras justo diante de mim nesta geração.

2 De todos os animais limpos levarás contigo de sete em sete, o macho e sua fêmea; e dos animais que não são limpos, dois, o macho e sua fêmea;

3 também das aves do céu, de sete em sete, macho e fêmea; para se conservar em vida semente sobre a face da terra.

4 Porque, passados ainda sete dias, eu farei chover sobre a terra quarenta dias e quarenta noites, e farei desaparecer da face da terra todas as criaturas que fiz.

5 Fez Noé segundo tudo o que Jeová lhe ordenara.

6 Noé tinha seiscentos anos de idade, quando o dilúvio de águas veio sobre a terra.

7 Entrou na arca Noé com seus filhos, sua mulher e as mulheres de seus filhos, por causa das águas do dilúvio.

8 Dos animais limpos, e dos animais que não são limpos, e das aves, e de tudo o que se arrasta sobre a terra,

9 entraram de dois em dois na arca, macho e fêmea, como Deus ordenara a Noé.

10 Passados os sete dias, vieram sobre a terra as águas do dilúvio.

11 No ano seiscentos da vida de Noé, no mês segundo, no dia dezessete do mês, nesse dia romperam-se as fontes do grande abismo, e abriram-se as janelas do céu.

12 Caiu copiosa chuva sobre a terra quarenta dias e quarenta noites.

13 Nesse mesmo dia entraram na arca Noé, seus filhos Sem, Cão e Jafé, sua mulher e as mulheres de seus filhos.

14 Entraram estes com todo o animal segundo as suas espécies, todo o gado segundo as suas espécies, todo o réptil que se arrasta sobre a terra segundo as suas espécies, e toda a ave segundo as suas espécies, pássaro de toda qualidade.

15 Entraram a Noé na arca a dois e dois de toda a carne, em que havia espírito de vida.

16 Os que entraram, entraram macho e fêmea de toda a carne, como Deus lhe ordenará; e Jeová o fechou dentro.

17 Durou o dilúvio quarenta dias sobre a terra; as águas cresceram e levantaram a arca, que se elevou por cima da terra.

18 Prevaleceram as águas, e cresceram grandemente sobre a terra; mas a arca andava sobre as águas.

19 As águas prevaleceram excessivamente sobre a terra, e todos os altos montes que havia debaixo do céu foram cobertos.

20 Quinze cúbitos por cima deles prevaleceram as águas, e os montes foram cobertos.

21 Pereceu toda a carne que se movia sobre a terra, tanto aves, como gado, animais, todo o réptil que se arrasta sobre a terra e todo o homem:

22 tudo o que tinha o fôlego do espírito de vida em seus narizes, tudo o que havia na terra seca morreu.

23 Foram destruídas todas as criaturas que havia sobre a face da terra, desde o homem até o gado, até o réptil e até as aves do céu; pereceram da terra: foi deixado somente Noé, e os que com ele estavam na arca.

24 Prevaleceram as águas sobre a terra cento e cinqüenta 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.