4. Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth. It will rain 40 days and 40 nights. I will destroy from the earth every living thing that I made.”
5. Noah did everything that the Lord commanded him.
6. Noah was 600 years old when the flood came.
7. He and his wife and his sons and their wives went into the boat. They went in to escape the waters of the flood.
8. The clean animals, the unclean animals, the birds and everything that crawls on the ground
9. came to Noah. They went into the boat in groups of two, male and female. This was just as God had commanded Noah.
10. Seven days later the flood started.
11. Noah was now 600 years old. The flood started on the seventeenth day of the second month of that year. That day the underground springs split open. And the clouds in the sky poured out rain.
12. The rain fell on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights.
13. On that same day Noah and his wife, his sons Shem, Ham and Japheth and their wives went into the boat.
14. They had every kind of wild animal and tame animal. There was every kind of animal that crawls on the earth. Every kind of bird was there.