The
Story of Noah’s Ark in Genesis 6-9 (New Revised Standard Version)
1 And it came to pass,
when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born
unto them,
2 that the sons of God
saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives
of all which they chose.
3 And the LORD said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is
flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
4 There were giants in
the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto
the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became
mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that
every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually.
6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the
earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air;
for it repenteth me that I have made them.
8 But Noah found grace
in the eyes of the LORD.
9 These are the
generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations,
and Noah walked with God.
10 And Noah begat three
sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 The earth also was
corrupt before God; and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon
the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way
upon the earth.
13 And God said unto
Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with
violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
14 Make thee an ark of
gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and
without with pitch.
15 And this is the
fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall
be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of
it thirty cubits.
16 A window shalt thou
make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the
ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories
shalt thou make it.
17 And, behold, I, even
I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is
the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in
the earth shall die.
18 But with thee will I
establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons,
and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
19 And of every living
thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to
keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
20 Of fowls after their
kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth
after his kind; two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them
alive.
21 And take thou unto
thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it
shall be for food for thee, and for them.
22 Thus did Noah
according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee
have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
2 Of every clean beast
thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are
not clean by two, the male and his female.
3 Of fowls also of the
air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all
the earth.
4 For yet seven days,
and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and
every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the
earth.
5 And Noah did
according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
6 And Noah was
six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and
his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, of the
waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and
of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that
creepeth upon the earth,
9 there went in two and
two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass
after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth
year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the
same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of
heaven were opened. 2 Pet. 3.6
12 And the rain was upon
the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 In the selfsame day
entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's
wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
14 they, and every beast
after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing
that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind,
every bird of every sort.
15 And they went in unto
Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of
life.
16 And they that went
in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
17 And the flood was
forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and
it was lifted up above the earth.
18 And the waters
prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the
face of the waters.
19 And the waters
prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were
under the whole heaven, were covered.
20 Fifteen cubits upward
did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
21 And all flesh died
that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
22 all in whose nostrils
was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land,
died.
23 And every living
substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and
cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were
destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were
with him in the ark.
24 And the waters
prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
1 And God remembered
Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in
the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged.
2 The fountains also of
the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was
restrained.
3 And the waters
returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and
fifty days the waters were abated.
4 And the ark rested in
the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of
Ar'arat.
5 And the waters
decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the
first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
6 And it came to pass
at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had
made:
7 and he sent forth a
raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the
earth.
8 Also he sent forth a
dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the
ground.
9 But the dove found no
rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark; for the
waters were on the face of the whole earth. Then he put forth his hand,
and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
10 And he stayed yet
other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.
11 And the dove came in
to him in the evening, and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked
off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
12 And he stayed yet
other seven days, and sent forth the dove, which returned not again unto him
any more.
13 And it came to pass
in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day
of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the
covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
14 And in the second
month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
15 And God spake unto
Noah, saying,
16 Go forth of the ark,
thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
17 Bring forth with thee
every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl,
and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that
they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the
earth.
18 And Noah went forth,
and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:
19 every beast, every creeping
thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after
their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
20 And Noah builded an
altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean
beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savor; and the LORD said in his heart, I will
not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of
man's heart is evil from his youth: neither will I again smite any more
every thing living, as I have done.
22 While the earth
remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and
day and night shall not cease.
1 And God blessed Noah
and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
2 And the fear of you
and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every
fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the
fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
3 Every moving thing
that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all
things.
4 But flesh with the
life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
5 And surely your blood
of your lives will I require: at the hand of every beast will I require it, and
at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life
of man.
6 Whoso sheddeth man's
blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
7 And you, be ye
fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply
therein.
8 And God spake unto
Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
9 And I, behold, I
establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
10 and with every living
creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every
beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of
the earth.
11 And I will establish
my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters
of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
12 And God said, This is
the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living
creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
13 I do set my bow in
the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to
pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the
cloud:
15 and I will remember
my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of
all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow shall be
in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting
covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon
the earth.
17 And God said unto
Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established
between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
18 And the sons of Noah,
that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is
the father of Canaan.
19 These are the
three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
20 And Noah began to
be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
21 and he drank of the
wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of
Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
23 And Shem and Japheth
took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went
backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were
backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
24 And Noah awoke from
his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
25 And he said, “Cursed be
Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.”
26 And he said, “Blessed
be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan
shall be his servant.
27 God shall enlarge
Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and
Canaan shall be his servant.”
28 And Noah lived after
the flood three hundred and fifty years.
29 And all the days of
Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.