10. It came about after the seven days, that the water 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 the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.
12. The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
13. On the very 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 the ark,
14. they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, all sorts of birds.
15. So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life.
16. Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and the Lord closed it behind him.
17. Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.