Genesis 7:6-23

6Now Noah was 1six hundred years old when the flood of water 2came upon the earth. 7Then 3Noah and his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the waters of the flood. 84Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that crawls on the ground, 9they all went into the ark to Noah 5by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. 10Now it came about after 6the seven days, that the waters of the flood 7came upon the earth. 11In the 8six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all 9the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the 10floodgates of the sky were opened. 1211The rain 12fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

13On this very same day 13Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark, 14they and every animal according to its kind, and all the livestock according to 14their kind, and every crawling thing that crawls on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, 15all sorts of birds. 15So they went into the ark to Noah, 16by twos of all flesh in which there was the breath of life. 16Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and the Lord closed the door behind him.

17Then the flood 17came upon the earth for 18forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth. 18The water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark 19floated on the 20surface of the water. 19And the water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains 21everywhere under the heavens were covered. 20The water prevailed 22fifteen cubits higher, 23and the mountains were covered. 21So 24all 25creatures that moved on the earth perished: birds, livestock, animals, and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind; 22of all that was on the dry land, all 26in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died. 23So He wiped out 27every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from mankind to animals, to crawling things, and the birds of the sky, and they were wiped out from the earth; and only 28Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.