10. After seven days, the waters of the flood were on the earth.
11. In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the same day, all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
12. The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
13. On the very same day Noah and the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark.
14. They and every wild animal according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every bird of every sort,
15. went with Noah into the ark, two by two of all flesh in which was the breath of life.
16. So they went in, male and female of all flesh, just as God had commanded him; then the Lord shut him in.
17. The flood was on the earth forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose up above the earth.
18. The water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.
19. The water prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered.
20. The waters prevailed upward and the mountains were covered fifteen cubits deep.
21. All flesh that moved on the earth died: birds and livestock and beasts, and every creeping thing that crept on the earth, and every man.