Seven days from now I will send rain that will last for forty days and nights, and I will destroy all other living creatures I have made.
no grass or plants were growing anywhere. God had not yet sent any rain, and there was no one to work the land.
So he told Noah: Cruelty and violence have spread everywhere. Now I'm going to destroy the whole earth and all its people.
I'm going to send a flood that will destroy everything that breathes! Nothing will be left alive.
Then the LORD said, “I won't let my life-giving breath remain in anyone for ever. No one will live for more than one hundred and twenty years.”
and he said, “I'll destroy every living creature on earth! I'll wipe out people, animals, birds, and reptiles. I'm sorry I ever made them.”
Seven days later a flood began to cover the earth.
For forty days the rain poured down without stopping. And the water became deeper and deeper, until the boat started floating high above the ground.
Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird with you. Do this so there will always be animals and birds on the earth.
Seven days later Noah sent the dove out again.
He waited seven more days before sending the dove out again, and this time it did not return.
God stopped up the places where the water had been gushing out from under the earth. He also closed up the sky, and the rain stopped.
who were swept away without warning.
When God divided out the wind and the water,
Wipe their names from the book of the living; remove them from the list of the innocent.
Three months before harvest, I kept back the rain. Sometimes I would let it fall on one town or field but not on another, and pastures dried up.
Everyone who wins the victory will wear white clothes. Their names will not be erased from the book of life, and I will tell my Father and his angels that they are my followers.