6.5 The LORD saw that the
wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that
every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was
only evil continually. 6.6 And the LORD was
sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it
grieved him to his heart. 6.7 So the LORD
said, "I will blot out man whom I have created
from the face of the ground, man and beast and
creeping things and birds of the air, for I am
sorry that I have made them." 6.8 But Noah
found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
6.9 These are the generations of
Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his
generation; Noah walked with God. 6.10 And
Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
6.11 Now the earth was corrupt in
God's sight, and the earth was filled with
violence. 6.12 And God saw the earth, and
behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had
corrupted their way upon the earth. 6.13
And God said to Noah, "I have determined to make
an end of all flesh; for the earth is filled with
violence through them; behold, I will destroy them
with the earth. 6.14 Make yourself an ark
of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark, and cover
it inside and out with pitch. 6.15 This is
how you are to make it: the length of the ark
three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits,
and its height thirty cubits. 6.16 Make a
roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above;
and set the door of the ark in its side; make it
with lower, second, and third decks. 6.17
For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon
the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the
breath of life from under heaven; everything that
is on the earth shall die. 6.18 But I will
establish my covenant with you; and you shall come
into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your
sons' wives with you. 6.19 And of every
living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of
every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with
you; they shall be male and female. 6.20 Of
the birds according to their kinds, and of the
animals according to their kinds, of every
creeping thing of the ground according to its
kind, two of every sort shall come in to you, to
keep them alive. 6.21 Also take with you
every sort of food that is eaten, and store it up;
and it shall serve as food for you and for them."
6.22 Noah did this; he did all that God
commanded him.
7.1 Then the LORD said to Noah,
"Go into the ark, you and all your household, for
I have seen that you are righteous before me in
this generation. 7.2 Take with you seven
pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate;
and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the
male and his mate; 7.3 and seven pairs of
the birds of the air also, male and female, to
keep their kind alive upon the face of all the
earth. 7.4 For in seven days I will send
rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights;
and every living thing that I have made I will
blot out from the face of the ground." 7.5
And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
7.6 Noah was six hundred years
old when the flood of waters came upon the
earth. 7.7 And Noah and his sons and
his wife and his sons' wives with him went into
the ark, to escape the waters of the flood.
7.8 Of clean animals, and of animals
that are not clean, and of birds, and of
everything that creeps on the ground, 7.9
two and two, male and female, went into the ark
with Noah, as God had commanded Noah. 7.10
And after seven days the waters of the flood
came upon the earth.[1]
7.11 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 forth, and the
windows of the heavens were opened.
7.12 And rain fell upon the earth forty
days and forty nights. 7.13 On the very
same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and
Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of
his sons with them entered the ark, 7.14
they and every beast according to its kind, and
all the cattle according to their kinds, and every
creeping thing that creeps on the earth according
to its kind, and every bird according to its kind,
every bird of every sort. 7.15 They went
into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh
in which there was the breath of life. 7.16
And they that entered, male and female of all
flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and
the LORD shut him in.
7.17 The flood continued forty
days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and
bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.
7.18 The waters prevailed and increased
greatly upon the earth; and the ark floated on the
face of the waters. 7.19 And the waters
prevailed so mightily upon the earth that all the
high mountains under the whole heaven were
covered; 7.20 the waters prevailed above
the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep.
7.21 And all flesh died that moved upon
the earth, birds, cattle, beasts, all swarming
creatures that swarm upon the earth, and every
man; 7.22 everything on the dry land in
whose nostrils was the breath of life died.
7.23 He blotted out every living thing that
was upon the face of the ground, man and animals
and creeping things and birds of the air; they
were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was
left, and those that were with him in the ark.
7.24 And the waters prevailed upon the
earth a hundred and fifty days.
8.1 But God remembered Noah and
all the beasts and all the cattle that were with
him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the
earth, and the waters subsided; 8.2 the
fountains of the deep and the windows of the
heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens
was restrained, 8.3 and the waters receded
from the earth continually. At the end of a
hundred and fifty days the waters had abated;
8.4 and in the seventh month, on the
seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest
upon the mountains of Ar'arat. 8.5 And the
waters continued to abate until the tenth month;
in the tenth month, on the first day of the month,
the tops of the mountains were seen.
8.6 At the end of forty days Noah
opened the window of the ark which he had made,
8.7 and sent forth a raven; and it went
to and fro until the waters were dried up from the
earth. 8.8 Then he sent forth a dove
from him, to see if the waters had subsided from
the face of the ground; 8.9 but the dove
found no place to set her foot, and she returned
to him to the ark, for the waters were still on
the face of the whole earth. So he put forth his
hand and took her and brought her into the ark
with him. 8.10 He waited another seven
days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the
ark; 8.11 and the dove came back to him in
the evening, and lo, in her mouth a freshly
plucked olive leaf; so Noah knew that the waters
had subsided from the earth. 8.12 Then he
waited another seven days, and sent forth the
dove; and she did not return to him any more.
8.13 In the six hundred and
first year, in the first month, the first day of
the month, the waters were dried from off the
earth; and Noah removed the covering of the
ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the
ground was dry. 8.14 In the second
month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the
earth was dry. 8.15 Then God said to Noah,
8.16 "Go forth from the ark, you and your
wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.
8.17 Bring forth with you every living
thing that is with you of all flesh -- birds and
animals and every creeping thing that creeps on
the earth -- that they may breed abundantly on the
earth, and be fruitful and multiply upon the
earth." 8.18 So Noah went forth, and his
sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.
8.19 And every beast, every creeping thing,
and every bird, everything that moves upon the
earth, went forth by families out of the ark.
8.20 Then Noah built an altar to
the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of
every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on
the altar. 8.21 And when the LORD smelled
the pleasing odor, the LORD said in his heart, "I
will never again curse the ground because of man,
for the imagination of man's heart is evil from
his youth; neither will I ever again destroy every
living creature as I have done. 8.22 While
the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and
heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not
cease."
9.1 And God blessed Noah and
his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and
multiply, and fill the earth. 9.2 The fear
of you and the dread of you shall be upon every
beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the
air, upon everything that creeps on the ground and
all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are
delivered. 9.3 Every moving thing that
lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the
green plants, I give you everything. 9.4
Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that
is, its blood. 9.5 For your lifeblood I
will surely require a reckoning; of every beast I
will require it and of man; of every man's brother
I will require the life of man. 9.6 Whoever
sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be
shed; for God made man in his own image.
9.7 And you, be fruitful and multiply,
bring forth abundantly on the earth and multiply
in it."
9.8 Then God said to Noah and to
his sons with him, 9.9 "Behold, I establish
my covenant with you and your descendants after
you, 9.10 and with every living creature
that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every
beast of the earth with you, as many as came out
of the ark. 9.11 I establish my covenant
with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut
off by the waters of a flood, and never again
shall there be a flood to destroy the earth."
9.12 And God said, "This is the sign of the
covenant which I make between me and you and every
living creature that is with you, for all future
generations: 9.13 I set my bow in the
cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant
between me and the earth. 9.14 When I bring
clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the
clouds, 9.15 I will remember my covenant
which is between me and you and every living
creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never
again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
9.16 When the bow is in the clouds, I will
look upon it and remember the everlasting covenant
between God and every living creature of all flesh
that is upon the earth." 9.17 God said to
Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant which I
have established between me and all flesh that is
upon the earth."
9.18 The sons of Noah who went
forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Ham was the father of Canaan. 9.19 These
three were the sons of Noah; and from these the
whole earth was peopled.
9.20 Noah was the first tiller of
the soil. He planted a vineyard; 9.21 and
he drank of the wine, and became drunk, and lay
uncovered in his tent. 9.22 And Ham, the
father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father,
and told his two brothers outside. 9.23
Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it upon
both their shoulders, and walked backward and
covered the nakedness of their father; their faces
were turned away, and they did not see their
father's nakedness. 9.24 When Noah awoke
from his wine and knew what his youngest son had
done to him, 9.25 he said,
"Cursed be Canaan;
a slave of slaves shall he be to his brothers."
9.26 He also said,
"Blessed by the LORD my God be Shem;
and let Canaan be his slave."
9.27 God enlarge Japheth,
and let him dwell in the tents of Shem;
and let Canaan be his slave."
9.28 After the flood Noah
lived three hundred and fifty years. 9.29
All the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty
years; and he died.
[1] Frick includes verse 7.10
in both 'J' and 'P'. [AH]
prepared for
Intro. to the Old Testament
Last Modified Sep. 28, 1995
By Alan Humm