{
  "1": "Then {after they had finished building the boat,} Yahweh commanded Noah, “You and your entire family must go into the boat, because I know {that} you {are} {the only one} among the people living today {who is} living rightly according to my standards. ",
  "2": "Take with you seven male and female pairs of every {kind of} pure animal, and {one} male and female pair of {every kind of} impure animal. ",
  "3": "Also {take} seven male and female pairs of {every kind of} bird {that flies} in the sky, so that {later} their offspring will live all over the earth.\n\n\\ts\\* ",
  "4": "{You must do that,} because seven days from today I will make it rain {continuously} {all} over the earth {for} forty days and nights. In that way, I will completely destroy from the earth every living creature that I have made.” ",
  "5": "Then Noah did everything {exactly} as Yahweh had commanded him {to do}.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
  "6": "Noah was 600 years old when the flood covered the earth. ",
  "7": "{That is when} he and his wife, and his sons and their wives went together into the boat so that they would not die in the flood.\n\n\\ts\\* ",
  "8": "{Also,} {every kind of} pure animal and {every kind of} impure animal and {every kind of} bird, {including} every {kind of creature} that lives on land, ",
  "9": "came in pairs to Noah {and went} into the boat. {They were} male and female {pairs}, which was exactly what God had commanded him {to take along}.\n\n\\p",
  "10": "So it happened {that} when the seven days {that God had spoken about} had passed, water started to flood the earth.\n\n\\ts\\* ",
  "11": "When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month {of the year}, on that {very} day all the springs in the deep ocean started pouring out water. {God also caused} the water in the sky to start pouring down, as if he had opened {huge} floodgates {in the sky}, ",
  "12": "so that it rained {continuously} {all} over the earth {for} forty days and nights.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
  "13": "{So it was that} on the same day {that the flood started}, Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons’ three wives {all} entered the boat. ",
  "14": "They had with them every kind of living creature, including every kind of livestock and every {other} kind of creature that lives on the land, and every kind of bird {and} everything {else} that flies.\n\n\\ts\\* ",
  "15": "Pairs of every {kind of} living thing that breathes {air} came to Noah {and went} into the boat. ",
  "16": "The animals that went into {the boat} {were} male and female {pairs} from every {kind of} living thing, which was exactly what God had commanded Noah {to take along}. Then {after they were all inside,} Yahweh closed the door {of the boat} behind them.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
  "17": "{For} forty days {and forty nights} the flood kept getting deeper and deeper {all} over the earth, and as the water rose, it lifted up the boat so that it floated {on the water} above the ground. ",
  "18": "So the floodwaters continued to rise and get much deeper {all} over the earth, while the boat floated {safely} on the water.\n\n\\ts\\* ",
  "19": "Eventually the water became so deep on the earth that {even} all the highest mountains everywhere under the sky were under water. ",
  "20": "{In fact,} the water rose {at least} seven meters above {the tops of} the {highest} mountains, so that they were {completely} under water.\n\\ts\\* ",
  "21": "Then all the creatures that lived on land died. {That} included {all} the birds, the livestock, and the {other} living creatures, including every {kind of} creature that lived in large groups on the earth, as well as all the people. ",
  "22": "Every living creature that breathed air and {lived} on dry land died.\n\n\\ts\\* ",
  "23": "That is how Yahweh completely destroyed all the living creatures that {were} on the earth, including {all} people and livestock and {all the other} creatures that lived {on the land} and also the birds {that flew} in the sky. Yes, he completely destroyed everything {that lived} on the earth, so that the only ones who were still alive were Noah and his family and the animals that were with them in the boat. \n\n\\ts\\*\n\\s1 God Causes the Flood to Go Away\n\\sr 7:24-8:19\n\\p",
  "24": "{Deep} water continued to cover the {entire} world {for} 150 days.\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "front": "\\s1 Yahweh Sends the Flood\n\\sr 7:1-23\n\\p"
}