11. In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
12. And there was rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13. In that same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered into the ark,
14. they and every animal after its kind and all the beasts after their kind and every creeping thing that moves upon the earth after its kind and every fowl after its kind, every bird, every thing with wings.
15. And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two by two of all flesh in which is the spirit of life.
16. And those that went in went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him, and the Lord shut him in.
17. And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters multiplied and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
18. And the waters prevailed and multiplied greatly upon the earth, and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
19. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the high mountains that were under all the heavens were covered.
20. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail, and the mountains were covered.
21. And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of beasts and of animals and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth and every man;