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The Great Flood begins

2347 BC, lasting 40 days traditional (Jones)

Passage
Gen 7:6-17
People
Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth
Before
The Great Flood
After
Water covers the earth

Participants

Taking part, as Theographic records them, most often named first.

Every verse

All 12 verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Genesis12 verses
  1. 7:6

    Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.

  2. 7:7

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

  3. 7:8

    The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground

  4. 7:9

    came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

  5. 7:10

    And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.

  6. 7:11

    In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

  7. 7:12

    And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

  8. 7:13

    On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—

  9. 7:14

    they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.

  10. 7:15

    They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.

  11. 7:16

    And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.

  12. 7:17

    For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.