1At that time, after the death of Methuselah, the Lord said to Noah, Go thou

2And thou shalt go and seat thyself by the doors of the ark, and all the

3And the Lord brought this about on the next day, and animals, beasts and

4And Noah went and seated himself by the door of the ark, and of all flesh

5And a lioness came, with her two whelps, male and female, and the three

6And the lioness ran away, and stood in the place of the lions.

7And Noah saw this, and wondered greatly, and he rose and took the two

8And Noah brought into the ark from all living creatures that were upon

9Two and two came to Noah into the ark, but from the clean animals, and

10And all the animals, and beasts, and fowls, were still there, and they

11And on that day, the Lord caused the whole earth to shake, and the sun

12And still the sons of men would not return from their evil ways, and they

13And at the end of seven days, in the six hundredth year of the life of

14And all the fountains of the deep were broken up, and the windows of

15And Noah and his household, and all the living creatures that were with

16And all the sons of men that were left upon the earth, became exhausted

17And the sons of men assembled together, about seven hundred thousand men

18And they called to Noah, saying, Open for us that we may come to thee in

19And Noah, with a loud voice, answered them from the ark, saying, Have you

20Is not this the thing that I spoke to you of one hundred and twenty years

21And they said to Noah, We are ready to return to the Lord; only open for

22And Noah answered them, saying, Behold now that you see the trouble of

23But now you come and tell me this on account of the troubles of your

24And the sons of men approached in order to break into the ark, to come in

25And the Lord sent all the beasts and animals that stood round the ark. And

26And the rain was still descending upon the earth, and it descended forty

27And the waters prevailed and they greatly increased upon the earth, and

28And the ark floated upon the face of the waters, and it was tossed upon

29And great anxiety seized all the living creatures that were in the ark,

30And all the living creatures that were in the ark were terrified, and the

31And Noah prayed unto the Lord, and cried unto him on account of this, and

32And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Noah, and the Lord remembered him.

33And a wind passed over the earth, and the waters were still and the ark

34And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and

35And the waters decreased in those days, and the ark rested upon the

36And Noah then opened the windows of the ark, and Noah still called out to

37And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Noah, and said to him, When thou

38And at the revolution of the year, when a full year was completed to

39At that time, on the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was

40And the day came that the Lord told them to go out, and they all went out

41And they went and returned every one to his way and to his place, and Noah

42And he said to them, Be fruitful and fill all the earth; become strong and

Chapter 6

Animals, Beasts, and Fowls Preserved in the Ark. Noah and his Sons,