4. Seven days from now I am going to send rain that will fall for forty days and nights, in order to destroy all the living beings that I have made.”
5. And Noah did everything that the Lord commanded.
6. Noah was 600 years old when the flood came on the earth.
7. He and his wife, and his sons and their wives, went into the boat to escape the flood.
8. A male and a female of every kind of animal and bird, whether ritually clean or unclean,
9. went into the boat with Noah, as God had commanded.
10. Seven days later the flood came.
11. When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month all the outlets of the vast body of water beneath the earth burst open, all the floodgates of the sky were opened,
12. and rain fell on the earth for forty days and nights.
13. On that same day Noah and his wife went into the boat with their three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.
14. With them went every kind of animal, domestic and wild, large and small, and every kind of bird.
15. A male and a female of each kind of living being went into the boat with Noah,