Restored English Translation of Genesis: Chapter 7
As many of you know, I have commenced a translation of the Bible, called the Restored English Translation (RET). Here is my translation of Beresheet (Genesis) chapter 7. As usual, it contains the Hebrew names and the Aleph Tavs (although I now seriously doubt them). A glossary is at the end for the Hebrew names.
CHAPTER 7
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And YEHOVAH said to Noach, “You come into the ark, and all your house,
for I have seen you righteous before Me in this generation. 2
You shall take of every clean beast to yourself by sevens, the male and
female. And you shall take of the unclean beasts by twos, the male and
female. 3 Also, of birds of the air by sevens, the male and the female, to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth. 4 For after 7 more days I will cause it to rain on the earth 40 days and 40 nights, and I will destroy את every living thing that I have made from off the face of the earth.” 5 And Noach did according to all that YEHOVAH commanded him. 6 And Noach was a son of 600 years; and the flood of waters was on the earth. 7 And Noach went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that were not clean, and of birds, and of everything that crawls on the earth, 9 they went in two by two to Noach into the ark, male and female, as had commanded ELOHIM את Noach. 10 And it happened after 7 days that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 11 In the 600th year of Noach’s life, in the 2nd month, the 17th day of the month, the same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken open, and the windows of heaven were opened up. 12 And the rain was on the earth 40 days and 40 nights. 13
In the same day Noach, and Shem, and Cham, and Yefet (the sons of
Noach), and Noach’s wife, and his sons’ three wives with them, entered
into the ark. 14
They, and every animal after its kind, and every beast after its kind,
and every crawling thing that crawls on the earth after its kind, and
every bird after its kind, every bird of every wing. 15 And they went to Noach into the ark, two by two of all flesh which has the breath of life in it. 16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as ELOHIM had commanded him. And YEHOVAH shut him in. 17 And the flood was on the earth 40 days. And the waters increased, and bore up את the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth. 18 And the waters prevailed and were increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth and all the high mountains that were under the heavens were covered; 20 15 cubits upward did the waters prevail, and the mountains were covered. 21
And all flesh that moved on the earth died, of birds and of beasts and
of living things and of every crawling thing that crawls on the earth
and all of the humans. 22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. 23 And was destroyed את every
living thing which was on the face of the ground; from humankind to
beast to the crawling things and the birds of the heavens. And they were
wiped from off the earth, and only Noach and they that were with him in
the ark remained alive. 24 And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.
Glossary
YEHOVAH – The Lord
Noach – Noah
ELOHIM – God
Cham – Ham
Yefet – Japheth
