5. Noah complied, just as the Lord had commanded.
6. Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came upon the earth.
7. Together with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, Noah went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.
8. Of the clean animals and the unclean, of the birds, and of everything that crawls on the ground,
9. two by two, male and female came to Noah into the ark, just as God had commanded him.
10. When the seven days were over, the waters of the flood came upon the earth.
11. In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month: on that dayAll the fountains of the great abyss burst forth,and the floodgates of the sky were opened.
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.