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.