⁵ The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination and intention of all human thinking was only evil continually.

⁶ And the Lord regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved at heart.

⁷ So the Lord said, I will destroy, blot out, and wipe away mankind, whom I have created from the face of the ground—not only man, [but] the beasts and the creeping things and the birds of the air—for it grieves Me and makes Me regretful that I have made them.

⁸ But Noah found grace (favor) in the eyes of the Lord.

⁶ Noah was 600 years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth or land.

⁷ And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.^(A)

⁸ Of ^[a]clean animals and of animals that are not clean, and of birds and fowls, and of everything that creeps on the ground,

⁹ There went in two and two with Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

¹⁰ And after the seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth or land.

¹¹ In the year 600 of Noah’s life, in the seventeenth day of the second month, that same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up and burst forth, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened.

¹² And it rained upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

¹³ On the very 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, went into the ark,

¹⁴ They and every [wild] beast according to its kind, all the livestock according to their kinds, every moving thing that creeps on the land according to its kind, and every fowl according to its kind, every winged thing of every sort.

¹⁵ And they went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there were the breath and spirit of life.

¹⁶ And they that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded [Noah]; and the Lord shut him in and closed [the door] round about him.

¹⁷ The flood [that is, the downpour of rain] was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased and bore up the ark, and it was lifted [high] above the land.

¹⁸ And the waters became mighty and increased greatly upon the land, and the ark went [gently floating] upon the surface of the waters.

¹⁹ And the waters prevailed so exceedingly and were so mighty upon the earth that all the high hills under the whole sky were covered.

²⁰ [In fact] the waters became fifteen cubits higher, as the high hills were covered.

²¹ And all flesh ceased to breathe that moved upon the earth—fowls and birds, [tame] animals, [wild] beasts, all swarming and creeping things that swarm and creep upon the land, and all mankind.

²² Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils were the breath and spirit of life died.

²³ God destroyed (blotted out) every living thing that was upon the face of the earth; man and animals and the creeping things and the birds of the heavens were destroyed (blotted out) from the land. Only Noah remained alive, and those who were with him in the ark.^(B)

²⁴ And the waters prevailed [mightily] upon the earth or land 150 days (five months).