| New King James Version | International Standard Version |
| 1Then the LORD said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation. | 1Then the LORD told Noah, "Come—you and all your household—into the ark, because I've seen that you alone are righteous in this generation. |
| 2You shall take with you seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female; | 2You are to take with you seven pairs of every clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of the unclean animals, a male and its mate; |
| 3also seven each of birds of the air, male and female, to keep the species alive on the face of all the earth. | 3along with seven pairs of the flying birds, male and female, in order to keep their offspring alive on the surface of all the earth. |
| 4For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made.” | 4Seven days from now I'll send rain on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights, and I'll destroy every living creature that I've made." |
| 5And Noah did according to all that the LORD commanded him. | 5Noah did everything that the LORD commanded. |
| 6Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters were on the earth. | 6Noah was 600 years old when water began to flood the earth. |
| 7So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood. | 7Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives entered the ark with him before the flood waters arrived. |
| 8Of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth, | 8From both clean and unclean animals, from birds, and from everything that crawls on the ground, |
| 9two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. | 9two by two, male and female, they entered the ark to join Noah, just as God had commanded. |
| 10And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth. | 10Seven days later, the flooding started. |
| 11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. | 11On the seventeenth day of the second month, when Noah was 600 years old, all the springs of the great deep burst open, the floodgates of the heavens were opened, |
| 12And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights. | 12and it rained throughout the earth for 40 days and 40 nights. |
| 13On the very same day Noah and Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark— | 13On that very day, Noah entered the ark with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah's wife, his sons' three wives with them, |
| 14they and every beast after its kind, all cattle 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. | 14along with every species of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and every creature that has wings. |
| 15And they went into the ark to Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life. | 15Two of each living creature entered the ark with Noah. |
| 16So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in. | 16The males and females of each living creature entered the ark, just as God had commanded. Then the LORD sealed them inside. |
| 17Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. | 17The flood continued throughout the earth for 40 days, while the flood waters increased, lifting the ark so that it rose above the surface of the earth. |
| 18The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the waters. | 18The flood waters continued to surge, increasing throughout the earth, while the ark floated on the surface of the flood water. |
| 19And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered. | 19The flood water surged even higher throughout the earth, until all the highest mountains under the sky were covered. |
| 20The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. | 20The flood waters rose 15 cubits above the mountains. |
| 21And all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man. | 21Every living thing on earth died—flying creatures, livestock, wildlife, all creatures that swarm over the earth, and all human beings. |
| 22All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died. | 22Everything that breathed and everything that had lived on dry land died. |
| 23So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive. | 23All existing creatures that had lived on the surface of the ground were annihilated, from humans to livestock, from crawling creatures to birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah remained, along with those who were with him in the ark. |
| 24And the waters prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days. | 24The flood waters surged over the earth for 150 days. |
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