Genesis 7 – NIVUK & BPH

New International Version – UK

Genesis 7:1-24

1The Lord then said to Noah, ‘Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. 2Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 3and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. 4Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.’

5And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.

6Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. 7And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. 8Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, 9male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah. 10And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.

11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month – on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12And rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

13On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark. 14They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings. 15Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark. 16The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.

17For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. 18The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. 19They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. 20The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.7:20 That is, about 6.8 metres7:20 Or rose more than fifteen cubits, and the mountains were covered 21Every living thing that moved on land perished – birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. 22Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. 23Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.

24The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.

Bibelen på hverdagsdansk

1. Mosebog 7:1-24

Ondskabens konsekvens

1Da Noa var færdig med at bygge arken, sagde Herren til ham: „Du og din familie skal gå om bord i arken, for du er den eneste, jeg kan acceptere blandt menneskene på jorden. 2-3Af alle slags fugle og de dyr, der bruges til ofringer og til mad, skal du tage syv par, en han og en hun, for at de siden hen kan formere sig på jorden. Af de øvrige dyr skal du kun tage ét par, en han og en hun. 4Om syv dage vil jeg sende regn, og det vil blive ved at regne uden ophør i 40 dage.7,4 På hebraisk 40 dage og 40 nætter, hvilket svarer til 40 dage og 39 nætter eller 39 døgn på dansk. Jeg vil udrydde alle levende væsener fra jordens overflade.”

5Noa gjorde, som Herren havde befalet ham: 6-11Han bad sin kone, sine sønner og deres koner om at gøre sig klar til at gå ind i arken, så de kunne blive reddet fra oversvømmelsen. Alle dyrearter kom parvis ind i arken, som Herren havde befalet. Syv dage efter at Gud havde talt, begyndte regnen. Jordens kilder og himlens sluser blev åbnet på den 17. dag i den anden måned i det år, hvor Noa blev 600, 12og det regnede uafbrudt i de næste 40 dage. 13På den dag, da regnen begyndte, gik Noa ind i arken sammen med sin kone og sine sønner, Sem, Kam og Jafet, og deres koner. 14Alle de forskellige dyr var allerede kommet ind i arken, både de tamme og vilde dyr og fuglene, 15ja, alt, hvad der kunne trække vejret, 16sådan som Gud havde befalet. Og Herren lukkede døren efter dem.

17I 40 dage blev vandet ved med at stige, og arken flød på vandet. 18Vandet steg og steg, 19indtil de højeste bjerge stod under vand. 20Vandet nåede mere end 7 meter over bjergtoppene. 21-22Alt levende på landjorden omkom—både dyr og mennesker. 23Kun Noa overlevede—og sammen med ham alle dem, som var i arken.

24I 150 dage var jorden i vandmassernes vold.