Bible Gateway passage: Genesis 6:9-22 - New International Version (2024)

Noah and the Flood

⁹This is the account^(A) of Noah and his family.

Noah was a righteous man, blameless^(B) among the people of his time,^(C) and he walked faithfully with God.^{(D) 10}Noah had three sons: Shem,^(E) Ham and Japheth.^(F)

¹¹Now the earth was corrupt^(G) in God’s sight and was full of violence.^{(H) 12}God saw how corrupt^(I) the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.^{(J) 13}So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy^(K) both them and the earth.^{(L) 14}So make yourself an ark of cypress^[a] wood;^(M) make rooms in it and coat it with pitch^(N) inside and out. ¹⁵This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.^{[b] 16}Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit^[c] high all around.^[d] Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. ¹⁷I am going to bring floodwaters^(O) on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.^{(P) 18}But I will establish my covenant with you,^(Q) and you will enter the ark^(R)—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. ¹⁹You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.^{(S) 20}Two^(T) of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind^(U) of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.^{(V) 21}You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”

²²Noah did everything just as God commanded him.^(W)

Footnotes

1. Genesis 6:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
2. Genesis 6:15 That is, about 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high or about 135 meters long, 23 meters wide and 14 meters high
3. Genesis 6:16 That is, about 18 inches or about 45 centimeters
4. Genesis 6:16 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.

Cross references

1. Genesis 6:9 : S Ge 2:4
2. Genesis 6:9 : Ge 17:1; Dt 18:13; 2Sa 22:24; Job 1:1; 4:6; 9:21; 12:4; 31:6; Ps 15:2; 18:23; 19:13; 37:37; Pr 2:7
3. Genesis 6:9 : Ge 7:1; Ps 37:39; Jer 15:1; Eze 14:14, 20; Da 10:11; S Lk 1:6; Heb 11:7; 2Pe 2:5
4. Genesis 6:9 : S Ge 5:22
5. Genesis 6:10 : Lk 3:36
6. Genesis 6:10 : S Ge 5:32
7. Genesis 6:11 : Dt 31:29; Jdg 2:19
8. Genesis 6:11 : Ps 7:9; 73:6; Eze 7:23; 8:17; 28:16; Mal 2:16
9. Genesis 6:12 : Ex 32:7; Dt 4:16; 9:12, 24
10. Genesis 6:12 : Ps 14:1-3
11. Genesis 6:13 : Dt 28:63; 2Ki 8:19; Ezr 9:14; Jer 44:11
12. Genesis 6:13 : ver 17; Ge 7:4, 21-23; Job 34:15; Isa 5:6; 24:1-3; Jer 44:27; Eze 7:2-3
13. Genesis 6:14 : Heb 11:7; 1Pe 3:20
14. Genesis 6:14 : Ex 2:3
15. Genesis 6:17 : Ps 29:10
16. Genesis 6:17 : S ver 7,S 13; 2Pe 2:5
17. Genesis 6:18 : Ge 9:9-16; 17:7; 19:12; Ex 6:4; 34:10, 27; Dt 29:13, 14-15; Ps 25:10; 74:20; 106:45; Isa 55:3; Jer 32:40; Eze 16:60; Hag 2:5; 1Pe 3:20
18. Genesis 6:18 : Ge 7:1, 7, 13
19. Genesis 6:19 : Ge 7:15
20. Genesis 6:20 : Ge 7:15
21. Genesis 6:20 : S Ge 1:11
22. Genesis 6:20 : Ge 7:3
23. Genesis 6:22 : Ge 7:5, 9, 16; Ex 7:6; 39:43; 40:16, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 32