Genesis Chapters 6-9

The Flood

CHAPTER 6                                                                                    

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 an 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.




CHAPTER 7                                                                                    

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, because 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.
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 lift 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 an hundred and fifty days.




CHAPTER 8                                                                                    

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 
asswaged;
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 Ararat.
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 pluckt 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 savour; 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. 




CHAPTER 9                                                                                    

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 an 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.

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