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.