9. two of each, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, just as God commanded Noah.
10. After seven days, the floodwaters arrived on the earth.
11. In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day—on that day all the springs of the deep sea erupted, and the windows in the skies opened.
12. It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.
13. That same day Noah, with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah’s wife, and his sons’ three wives, went into the ark.
14. They and every kind of animal—every kind of livestock, every kind that crawls on the ground, every kind of bird—
15. they came to Noah and entered the ark, two of every creature that breathes.
16. Male and female of every creature went in, just as God had commanded him. Then the Lord closed the door behind them.
17. The flood remained on the earth for forty days. The waters rose, lifted the ark, and it rode high above the earth.
18. The waters rose and spread out over the earth. The ark floated on the surface of the waters.
19. The waters rose even higher over the earth; they covered all of the highest mountains under the sky.