4. For within seven days I will send rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. And I will blot out all the living creatures that I have made from upon the face of the ground.”
5. And Noah did according to all that Yahweh commanded him.
6. Noah was six hundred years old when the flood waters came upon the earth.
7. And Noah and his sons and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.
8. Of clean animals, and of animals which are not clean, and of the birds, and everything that creeps upon the ground,
9. two of each went to Noah, into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
10. And it happened that after seven days the waters of the flood came over the earth.
11. In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month—on that day all the springs of the great deep were split open, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12. And the rain came upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13. On this same day, Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark,