Genesis 7:11-24
Read Genesis 7 in full →11In the asix hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all bthe fountains of the great deep split open, and the 1floodgates of the sky were opened. 12aThen the rain 1came upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
13On this very day aNoah 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, 14they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after 1their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind—every 2fowl, every winged creature. 15So they came to Noah into the ark, aby twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life. 16And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and Yahweh closed it behind him.
17Then the flood 1came upon the earth for aforty days, and the water multiplied and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth. 18And the water prevailed and multiplied greatly upon the earth, and the ark went on the 1surface of the water. 19And the water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered. 20The water prevailed 1fifteen cubits higher, aand the mountains were covered. 21aAnd all flesh that 1moved on the earth breathed its last, that is birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, as well as all mankind. 22All ain whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life—of all that was on the dry land—died. 23Thus He blotted out 1every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the 2sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only aNoah remained, and those that were with him in the ark. 24aAnd the water prevailed upon the earth 150 days.