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.