Genesis · Chapter 7

[ edit] Forſoþe þe Lord ſeide to hym, Go þow yn and al þin hows into þe arke, þee forſoþe I haue ſeen ryȝtwis bifore me in þis generacioun. Of alle hauynge ſowles clene, þow ſhalt take ſeuene and ſeuene, maal and femaal; and forſoþe of vnclene hauynge ſowle, two and two, maal and femaal; but of þe fowlis of heuene, ſeuene and ſeuene, maal and femaal, þat þe ſeed be ſauyd vpon þe face of al erþe. Ȝit forſoþe and aftir ſeuen daies I ſhal reyn vpon þe erþe fourti daies and fourti nyȝtis, and I ſhal do awey al ſubſtaunce þe which Y made, fro þe ouermoſt of þe erþe. Þanne Noe dide all þingis þat þe Lord comaundide him.

And he was of ſixe hundryd ȝeeris, whanne þe watris of þe flood floweden vpon þe erþe. And Noe is gon ynne, and his children, hys wijf, and þe wyues of his children wiþ hym into þe arke for þe watres of þe flood. Of þe clene forſoþe hauynge ſowlis, and vnclene, and of þe fowlis of heuene, and of alle þat mouen vpon þe erþe, two and two ben gon ynne to Noe into þe arke, maal and femaal, as þe Lord comaundide Noe. And whan þe ſeuene daies weren paſſid, þe watris of þe flood floweden vpon þe erþe.

Þe ſixt hundrid ȝeer of þe lijf of Noe, þe ſecounde moneþ, þe ſeuentenþe day of þe moneþ, ben broſten alle þe wellis of þe greet ſee, and þe goteris of heuene ben openyd, and reyn is maad vpon þe erþe fourti daies and fourti nyȝtis. In þe poynt of þat day Noe is gon ynne, Sem, and Cham, and Japheþ, his ſones, his wijf, and þre wyues of his ſonys wiþ hem, into þe arke. Þei, and al beeſt after her kynde, and alle iumentis in her kynde, and al þat moueþ vpon þe erþe in his kynde, and al volatile after his kynde, alle bryddis and alle fowlis, ben gon into Noe into þe arke, two and two of al flehs, in þe whiche was ſpirit of lijf.

And þe whiche ben gon ynne, maal and femaal of all flehs ȝeden ynne, as God had comaundide to hym. And þe Lord encloſide hym fro wiþout. And þe flood is maad fourti daies and fourti nyȝtis vpon þe erþe, and þe watres ben multiplied, and arereden þe arke in hiȝt fro þe erþe. Greetli þei floweden, and alle þingis þei fulfilliden, in þe ouermoſt of þe erþe. Forſoþe þe arke was born upon þe watris. And þe watris hadden ful myche mayſtry vpon þe erþe, and alle þe heiȝe hillis vndre alle heuenes ben coueryd; fiftene cubitis heiȝer was þe watre vpon hillis whiche it couered.

And al flehs is waſtid þat was moued vpon þe erþe, of fowlis, of hauynge ſowles, of beeſtis, and of alle crepynge þingis þat crepen vpon þe erþe. Alle men, and alle þingis in þe whiche is weie of breeþ of lijf in þe erþe, ben deed. And God dide awey al þe ſubſtaunce þat was vpon þe erþe, fro man vnto beeſt, as wel crepynge as fowlis of heuene; and þei ben don a wey fro þe erþe. Noe forſoþe dwellyd aloone, and þo þat weren wiþ hym in þe arke. And þe watris of þe flood al abowt wiþ hilden þe erþe an hundryd and fifti dayes.