1 Then the Lord said to Noah, “You are the only man alive today that lives the right way. It is time for you to take your family into the really big boat called the Ark.
2 And take every kind of animal with you. There are 2 groups of animals that I want you to take into the boat. In the first group there are animals that I call clean animals. Those clean animals are the animals that you can kill and burn to show me respect. Take 7 boy ones and 7 girl ones of those clean animals into the boat.
3 Take 7 boy ones and 7 girl ones of each kind of bird from all over the world with you into the boat.
4 I am going to make rain fall down from the sky in 7 days time. It will rain for 40 days and 40 nights so that everything I made will die and be washed away.”
5 So Noah did everything the Lord said to him.
10 Then 7 days later, the flood water came.
19 The water got so high that it covered all the really big hills everywhere.
20 It covered the tops of those hills with about 7 metres of water.
21 Every living thing that was outside the boat died. The flood water killed all the birds, all the wild animals, all the quiet animals, all the little animals that move along the ground and every living person.
22 Yes, everything that breathed air and lived on the earth died.
23 There was nothing left alive on the earth. There were no birds, big animals, little animals, or people. God killed them all and washed them away. Noah, his family and all the animals and birds inside the boat were the only ones that were still alive.
24 The flood water covered the earth for 5 months.