8 And Noah found grace in the sight of the Lord [God].

9 This is the life of Noah: Noah was a righteous man and blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11 But the earth was corrupted in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with wickedness.

12 And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had perverted its way on the earth.

13 And God said to Noah, 'The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with wickedness because of them; and behold, I will destroy them from the earth.

14 Thou shalt make thee an ark of gopher wood; Thou shalt make compartments in the ark, and tar it with pitch within and without.

15 And thou shalt make it thus: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits; and the breadth thereof shall be fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.

16 And thou shalt make a hole in the ark, and thou shalt bring it together at the top of the cubit, and thou shalt make the door of the ark at its side. and thou shalt make in it the lower, second, and third [dwellings].

17 And behold, I will bring a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is a spirit of life under the heavens; everything that is on earth will lose its life.

18 But I will make my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter into the ark, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

19 And thou shalt also bring into the ark [of every beast, and of every creeping thing, and] of every living thing, and of every flesh, two by two, that they may live with thee; male and female, let them be.

20 Of all the fowls after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after their kind, of all they shall come in two to thee, that they may live.

21 And thou shalt take unto thee all the food wherewith they eat, and gather unto thee; and it shall be food for thee and for them.