7. He and his family went into the boat to be saved from the flood. His wife and his sons and their wives were on the boat with him.
8. All the clean animals, all the other animals on the earth, the birds, and everything that crawls on the earth
9. went into the boat with Noah. These animals went into the boat in groups of two, male and female, just as God commanded.
10. Seven days later the flood started. The rain began to fall on the earth.
11-13. On the 17th day of the second month, when Noah was 600 years old, the springs under the earth broke through the ground, and water flowed out everywhere. The sky also opened like windows and rain poured down. The rain fell on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights. That same day Noah went into the boat with his wife, his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.