NIV Kids' Visual Study Bible NIV Kids' Visual Study Bible - Sampler | Page 12
genesis 7:24
7
The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and
your whole family, because I have found you righteous
in this generation. 2 Take with you seven pairs of every kind
of c lean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of ev
ery kind of unc lean animal, a male and its mate, 3 and also
seven p
airs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep
their various k inds a live throughout the earth. 4 Seven days
from now I will send rain on the earth for fort y days and
fort y nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every
living creat ure I have made.”
5 A nd Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.
6 Noah was six hund red years old when the floodwaters
came on the earth. 7 A nd Noah and his sons and his wife
and his sons’ w ives entered the ark to escape the waters of
the f lood. 8 Pairs of c lean and unc lean animals, of b
irds and
of all creat ures that move a long the g round, 9 male and fe
male, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had com
manded Noah. 10 A nd after the seven days the floodwaters
came on the earth.
11 I n the six hund redth year of Noa h’s life, on the sev
enteenth day of the second month — on that day all the
springs of the g reat deep b
urst forth, and the floodgates of
the heavens were o pened. 12 A nd rain fell on the e arth fort y
days and fort y nights.
13 On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and
Japheth, together with his wife and the w ives of his three
sons, entered the ark. 14 T hey had with them every wild
animal according to its kind, all livestock according to
their k inds, every creature that m
oves a long the g round
according to its kind and every bird according to its kind,
every t hing with w ings. 15 Pairs of all creat ures that have
the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the
ark. 16 T he animals going in were male and female of ev
ery living t hing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the
Lord shut him in.
17 For fort y days the f lood kept coming on the earth, and
as the waters increased they lifted the ark high a bove the
earth. 18 The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth,
and the ark floated on the surface of the water. 19 T hey rose
greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the
entire heavens were covered. 20 The waters rose and covered
the mountains to a d
epth of more than fifteen cubits. a , b
21 Every living t hing that moved on land perished — birds,
livestock, wild animals, all the creat ures that swarm over
the earth, and all mank ind. 22 Everything on dry land that
had the b
reath of life in its nostrils died. 23 Every living
t hing on the face of the e arth was w
iped out; people and
animals and the creat ures that move a long the g round and
the birds were w
iped from the earth. Only Noah was left,
and those with him in the ark.
24 T he waters flooded the earth for a hund red and fift y
days.
a 20 That is, about 23 feet or about 6.8 meters b 20 Or rose more than
fifteen cubits, and the mountains were covered
11
7:2
Clean and unclean animals
God gave his people laws about
what to eat, and he said that some
animals were unclean or impure.
God knew which food was the best
for humans to eat at that time. The
laws would have made sense then.
(See Leviticus 5:2 and Leviticus 11.)
7:2 – 3
Noah brought more clean
animals on the ark.
In addition to repopulating the
earth after the flood, the clean
animals were also used as food
while on the ark, and afterward as
sacrifices to God.
7:8 – 9
How Noah got all those
animals on board the ark
The Bible tells us the animals came
to Noah. We don’t know for sure,
but maybe God gave the animals
instincts to know that a disaster was
coming.
7:23
Fish and other sea animals
were safe during the
flood.
The Bible says only animals that
lived on land and birds were
destroyed.