1سپس خداوند به نوح فرمود: «تو و اهل خانه‌ات داخل كشتی شويد، زيرا در بين همهٔ مردمان اين روزگار فقط تو را درستكار يافتم. 2-3همراه خود هفت جفت از حيوانات حلال گوشت، هفت جفت از پرندگان و يک جفت از بقيه حيوانات را به درون كشتی ببر، تا بعد از طوفان، نسل آنها روی زمين باقی بماند. 4پس از يک هفته، به مدت چهل شبانه روز باران فرو خواهم ريخت و هر موجودی را كه به وجود آورده‌ام، از روی زمين محو خواهم كرد.»
5پس نوح هر آنچه را كه خداوند به او امر فرموده بود انجام داد. 6وقتی كه آن طوفان عظيم بر زمين آمد، نوح ششصد ساله بود. 7او و همسرش به اتفاق پسران و عروسانش به درون كشتی رفتند تا از خطر طوفان در امان باشند. 8-9پرندگان و خزندگان و حيوانات نيز، چه حلال گوشت و چه حرام گوشت، همراه او به كشتی رفتند. همانطوری كه خدا فرموده بود، آنها جفت‌جفت، نر و ماده، داخل كشتی جای گرفتند.
10-12بعد از يک هفته، هنگامی كه نوح ششصد ساله بود، در روز هفدهم ماه دوم، طوفان شروع شد و چهل شبانه روز به شدت باران باريد. همچنين همهٔ آبهای زيرزمينی فوران كرده، بر زمين جاری شدند.
13اما روزی كه طوفان شروع شد، نوح و همسر و پسرانش، سام و حام و يافث و زنان آنها داخل كشتی بودند. 14-15از هر نوع حيوان اهلی و وحشی، پرنده و خزنده نيز يک جفت با آنها بودند. 16پس از آنكه حيوانات نر و ماده، طبق دستور خدا به نوح، وارد كشتی شدند خداوند درِ كشتی را از عقب آنها بست.
17به مدت چهل شبانه روز باران سيل‌آسا می‌باريد و به تدریج زمين را می‌پوشانيد، تا اينكه كشتی از روی زمين بلند شد. 18رفته‌رفته آب آنقدر بالا آمد كه كشتی روی آن شناور گرديد.
19سرانجام بلندترين كوهها نيز به زير آب فرو رفتند. 20باران آنقدر باريد كه سطح آب به هفت متر بالاتر از قلهٔ كوهها رسيد. 21همهٔ جاندارانِ روی زمين يعنی حيواناتِ اهلی و وحشی، خزندگان و پرندگان، با آدميان هلاک شدند. 22هر موجودِ زنده‌ای كه در خشكی بود، نابود گشت. 23بدين‌سان خدا تمام موجودات زنده را از روی زمين محو كرد، به‌جز نوح و آنانی كه در كشتی همراهش بودند. 24آب تا صد و پنجاه روز همچنان پهنهٔ زمين را پوشانيده بود.
1Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark with your whole family. I know that you are a godly man among the people of today. 2Take seven pairs of every kind of ‘clean’ animal with you. Take a male and a female of each kind. Take one pair of every kind of animal that is not ‘clean.’ Take a male and a female of each kind. 3Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird. Take a male and a female of each kind. Then every kind will be kept alive. They can spread out again over the whole earth. 4Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth. It will rain for 40 days and 40 nights. I will destroy from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”
5Noah did everything the Lord commanded him to do.
6Noah was 600 years old when the flood came on the earth. 7He and his sons entered the ark. His wife and his sons’ wives went with them. They entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. 8Male and female pairs of “clean” animals and pairs of animals that were not “clean” came to Noah. So did male and female pairs of birds and of all the creatures that move along the ground. 9All of them came to Noah and entered the ark. Everything happened just as God had commanded Noah. 10After seven days the flood came on the earth.
11Noah was 600 years old. It was the 17th day of the second month of the year. On that day all of the springs at the bottom of the oceans burst open. God opened the windows of the sky. 12Rain fell on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights.
13On that same day Noah entered the ark together with his sons Shem, Ham and Japheth. Noah’s wife and the wives of his three sons also entered it. 14They had every kind of wild animal with them. They had every kind of livestock, creature that moves along the ground, and bird that flies. 15Pairs of all living creatures that breathe came to Noah and entered the ark. 16The animals going in were male and female of every living thing. Everything happened just as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.
17For 40 days the flood kept coming on the earth. As the waters rose higher, they lifted the ark high above the earth. 18The waters rose higher and higher on the earth. And the ark floated on the water. 19The waters rose on the earth until all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered. 20The waters continued to rise until they covered the mountains by more than 20 feet. 21Every living thing that moved on land died. The birds, the livestock and the wild animals died. All of the creatures that fill the earth also died. And so did every human being. 22Every breathing thing on dry land died. 23Every living thing on earth was wiped out. People and animals were destroyed. The creatures that move along the ground and the birds in the sky were wiped out. Everything on earth was destroyed. Only Noah and those with him in the ark were left.
24The waters flooded the earth for 150 days.
