Genesis 6:11   (Read all of Genesis 6)

Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence.

Genesis 6:12   (Read all of Genesis 6)

God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.

Genesis 6:13   (Read all of Genesis 6)

So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.

Genesis 6:14   (Read all of Genesis 6)

So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.

Genesis 6:16   (Read all of Genesis 6)

Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.

Genesis 6:18   (Read all of Genesis 6)

But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark-you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.

Genesis 6:21   (Read all of Genesis 6)

You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them."

Genesis 7:1   (Read all of Genesis 7)

The Lord then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

Genesis 7:2   (Read all of Genesis 7)

Take 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,

Genesis 7:3   (Read all of Genesis 7)

and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.

Genesis 7:4   (Read all of Genesis 7)

Seven 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."

Genesis 7:6   (Read all of Genesis 7)

Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.

Genesis 7:7   (Read all of Genesis 7)

And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

Genesis 7:10   (Read all of Genesis 7)

And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.

Genesis 7:11   (Read all of Genesis 7)

In 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.

Genesis 7:13   (Read all of Genesis 7)

On 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.

Genesis 7:16   (Read all of Genesis 7)

The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.

Genesis 7:18   (Read all of Genesis 7)

The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.

Genesis 7:21   (Read all of Genesis 7)

Every living thing that moved on land perished-birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.

Genesis 8:1   (Read all of Genesis 8)

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.

Genesis 8:2   (Read all of Genesis 8)

Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky.

Genesis 8:3   (Read all of Genesis 8)

The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,

Genesis 8:4   (Read all of Genesis 8)

and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

Genesis 8:7   (Read all of Genesis 8)

and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.