8. And from the animals both clean and unclean, and from the birds, and from everything that moves upon the earth,
9. two by two they were brought into the ark to Noah, male and female, just as the Lord had instructed Noah.
10. And when seven days had passed, the waters of the great flood inundated the earth.
11. In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great abyss were released, and the floodgates of heaven were opened.
12. And rain came upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
13. On the very same day, Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark.
14. They and every animal according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and everything that moves upon the earth in their kind, and every flying thing according to its kind, all the birds and all that can fly,
15. entered the ark to Noah, two by two out of all that is flesh, in which there was the breath of life.
16. And those that entered went in male and female, from all that is flesh, just as God had instructed him. And then the Lord closed him in from the outside.
17. And the great flood occurred for forty days upon the earth. And the waters were increased, and they lifted the ark high above the land.
18. For they overflowed greatly, and they filled everything on the surface of the earth. And then the ark was carried across the waters.
19. And the waters prevailed beyond measure across the earth. And all the lofty mountains under the whole heaven were covered.