¹And the Lord said to Noah, “Go, you and all your household, into the ark, for I have seen you as righteous before me in this generation. ²From every clean beast, take along seven and seven, the male and its mate. And from the beasts which are not clean, a pair, the male and its mate. ³Also from the birds of the sky, take seven and seven, male and female, to preserve seed alive on the face of all the earth. ⁴For in seven days' time I will be sending rain over the earth, for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe out every living thing which I made from the face of the earth.” ⁵And Noah did everything that the Lord commanded him. ⁶Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood took place with water over the earth. ⁷And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives went with him into the ark because of the water of the flood. ⁸Those from the clean beasts, and from the beasts which are not clean, and from the birds, and everything that creeps on the ground ⁹came two by two to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had instructed Noah. ¹⁰And it came to pass after seven days that the floodwater came over the earth. ¹¹In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month – on this day – all the founts of the great deep were split open, and the floodgates of heaven were opened. ¹²And the rain came over the earth for forty days and forty nights. ¹³On this very day Noah went into the ark, as did Shem and Ham and Japheth, Noah's sons, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them – ¹⁴they and all the wild animals according to their species, and all the cattle according to their species, and all the reptiles which creep on the earth according to their species, and all the birds according to their species – all fowl of every wing. ¹⁵So they came to Noah, to the ark, two by two, from all the kinds of flesh in which there is the breath of life. ¹⁶And those that came were male and female; from every kind of flesh they came, as God had instructed him. Then the Lord closed up after him. ¹⁷And the flood took place for forty days on the earth, and the water increased and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth. ¹⁸And the water gained strength and increased greatly over the earth, while the ark went on the surface of the water. ¹⁹And the water gained greater and greater strength over the earth, and all the high mountains which are below all the heavens were covered. ²⁰The water grew to fifteen cubits upwards, and it covered the mountains. ²¹And all flesh which creeps over the earth expired, with birds and with beasts and with animals, and with all aquatic life which teems on the earth, and all mankind. ²²Everything that had the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils – everything which was on dry land – died. ²³And he wiped out every living thing which was on the surface of the earth, both man and beast, and reptile and the birds of the sky. And they were wiped out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained. ²⁴And the water held sway over the earth for one hundred and fifty days.