Genesis 7 Bible in Basic English

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1 And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.

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 Of every clean beast you will take seven males and seven females, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, the male and his female;

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 And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.

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 For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of 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 And Noah did everything which the Lord said he was to do.

5 Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.

6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.

6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.

7 And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.

7 Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.

8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth,

8 Clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground

9 In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said.

9 went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

10 And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.

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, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;

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 And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

12 It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark;

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 And with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every sort of thing which goes on the earth, and every sort of bird.

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 They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.

15 Pairs from all flesh with the breath of life in them went into the ship to Noah.

16 Male and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and the ark was shut by the Lord.

16 Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then Yahweh shut him in.

17 And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.

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 And the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters.

18 The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.

19 And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered.

19 The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

20 The waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all the mountains were covered.

20 The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.

21 And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man.

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 Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end.

22 All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

23 Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.

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 And the waters were over the earth a hundred and fifty days.

24 The waters flooded the earth one hundred fifty days.

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Noah
The ark builder
A righteous man who found favor with God and rode out the flood in an ark.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 5:28–9:29
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Quotes verse 7:10 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XV, Chapters 13–14)
But why in the same place is it also written, "The waters of the flood were upon the earth in the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the twenty-seventh day of the month," if that very brief year (of which it took ten to make one of ours) consisted of thirty-six days?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Quotes verse 7:20 Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm XC)
Hence in the Psalms, fifteen "songs of degrees." Hence the waters of the deluge overtopped the highest mountains by fifteen cubits: and many other instances of the same nature.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

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