Genesis 7:6-12

6Noah was six hundred years old when the flood (deluge) of water came on the earth [covering all of the land].

7Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark to escape the flood waters.

8Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and fowls and everything that crawls on the ground,

9they came [motivated by God] into the ark with Noah two by two, the male and the female, just as God had commanded Noah.

10And after the seven days [God released the rain and] the floodwaters came on the earth.

11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep [subterranean waters] burst open, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened.

12It rained on the earth for forty days and forty nights.