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Table 1.G Priestly version of the flood story
| 6:9-22 |
9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with Elohim.
10 And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 Now the earth was corrupt in Elohim's sight, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And Elohim saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
13 And Elohim said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh; for the earth is filled with violence through them; behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
14 Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.
15 This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
16 Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above; and set the door of the ark in its side; make it with lower, second, and third decks.
17 For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall die.
18 But I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
19 And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.
20 Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you, to keep them alive.
21 Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and store it up; and it shall serve as food for you and for them."
22 Noah did this; he did all that Elohim commanded him. |
| 7:6-7 |
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth.
7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him went into the ark, to escape the waters of the flood. |
| 7:9b |
male and female, as Elohim had commanded Noah. |
| 7:11 |
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. |
| 7:13-16a |
13 On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark,
14 they and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every bird of every sort.
15 They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.
16 And they that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as Elohim had commanded him. |
| 7:18-21 |
18 The waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark floated on the face of the waters.
19 And the waters prevailed so mightily upon the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered;
20 the waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep.
21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, birds, cattle, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm upon the earth, and every man. |
| 7:24-8:2 |
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
1 But Elohim remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark. And Elohim made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided;
2 the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained. |
| 8:3b-5 |
At the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had abated;
4 and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest upon the mountains of Ararat.
5 And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen. |
| 8:7 |
7 And he sent forth a raven; and it went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth. |
| 8:13a |
13 In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth; |
| 8:14-19 |
14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
15 Then Elohim said to Noah,
16 "Go forth from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.
17 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh--birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth--that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth."
18 So Noah went forth, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.
19 And every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves upon the earth, went forth by families out of the ark. |
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