4. For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.
5. And Noe did all things which the Lord had commanded him.
6. And he was six hundred years old, when the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.
7. And Noe went in and his sons, his wife and the wives of his sons with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8. And of the beasts clean and unclean, and of fowls, and of every thing that moveth upon the earth,
9. Two and two went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as the Lord had commanded Noe.
10. And after seven days were passed, the waters of the flood overflowed the earth.
11. In the six hundreth year of the life of Noe in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the flood gates of heaven were open:
12. And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13. In the selfsame day Noe, and Sem, and Cham, and Japheth his sons: his wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark:
14. They and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and every thing that moveth upon the earth according to its kind, and every fowl according to its kind, and every fowl according to its kind, all birds, and all that fly.