6. Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed the earth.
7. Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because of the floodwaters.
8. Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,
9. male and female, came into the ark to Noah, just as God had commanded him.
10. And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed 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 day all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
12. And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
13. On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons’ three wives.
14. They entered, along with every living creature after its kind, every animal after its kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, everything with wings.
15. Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah.
16. Those that entered were male and female, just as God commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.
17. The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.
18. The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.
19. The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.
20. The waters rose more than twenty feet above the mountains.