Genesis 7 Young's Literal Translation

About YLT

Individual translator
OT: Masoretic Hebrew
NT: Textus Receptus
Protestant (66 books)
Very literal
1898
Public domain

Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings

YLT Young's Literal Translation

WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)

1 And Jehovah saith to Noah, 'Come in, thou and all thy house, unto the ark, for thee I have seen righteous before Me in this generation;

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 all the clean beasts thou dost take to thee seven pairs, a male and its female; and of the beasts which are not clean two, a male and its 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 also, of fowl of the heavens seven pairs, a male and a female, to keep alive seed on the face of all 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 other seven days I am sending rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and have wiped away all the substance that I have made from off the face of the ground.'

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 doth according to all that Jehovah hath commanded him:

5 Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.

6 and Noah [is] a son of six hundred years, and the deluge of waters hath been upon the earth.

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

7 And Noah goeth in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, unto the ark, from the presence of the waters of the deluge;

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

8 of the clean beasts and of the beasts that [are] not clean, and of the fowl, and of every thing that is creeping upon the ground,

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

9 two by two they have come in unto Noah, unto the ark, a male and a female, as God hath commanded Noah.

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

10 And it cometh to pass, after the seventh of the days, that waters of the deluge have been on the earth.

10 After the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened,

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 the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights.

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

13 In this self-same day went in Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, unto 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 they, and every living creature after its kind, and every beast after its kind, and every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird — every wing.

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 And they come in unto Noah, unto the ark, two by two of all the flesh in which [is] a living spirit;

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

16 and they that are coming in, male and female of all flesh, have come in as God hath commanded him, and Jehovah doth close [it] for him.

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

17 And the deluge is forty days on the earth, and the waters multiply, and lift up the ark, and it is raised up from off 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 are mighty, and multiply exceedingly upon the earth; and the ark goeth 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 have been very very mighty on the earth, and covered are all the high mountains which [are] under the whole heavens;

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

20 fifteen cubits upwards have the waters become mighty, and the mountains are covered;

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

21 and expire doth all flesh that is moving on the earth, among fowl, and among cattle, and among beasts, and among all the teeming things which are teeming on the earth, and all mankind;

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 in whose nostrils [is] breath of a living spirit — of all that [is] in the dry land — have died.

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

23 And wiped away is all the substance that is on the face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto fowl of the heavens; yea, they are wiped away from the earth, and only Noah is left, and those who [are] with him in the ark;

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 are mighty on the earth a hundred and fifty days.

24 The waters flooded the earth one hundred fifty days.

People & places in this chapter

From this site's family tree and Bible maps, only where those guides cite this chapter.

People

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
See in the family tree

Cross references (22)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

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)

Old Testament

New Testament

People & places in this chapter

People

In our library

What the Fathers said