12. For forty days and forty nights heavy rain poured down on the earth.
13. On the very same day, Noah and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of Noah’s sons had entered the ark,
14. together with every kind of wild animal, every kind of tame animal, every kind of crawling thing that crawls on the earth, and every kind of bird.
15. Pairs of all creatures in which there was the breath of life came to Noah into the ark.
16. Those that entered were male and female; of all creatures they came, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.
17. The flood continued upon the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark, so that it rose above the earth.
18. The waters swelled and increased greatly on the earth, but the ark floated on the surface of the waters.