Summa.
The Flood
1The Lord said to Noah, “Go into the boat with your whole family; I have found that you are the only one in all the world who does what is right.
2Take with you seven pairs of each kind of ritually clean animal, but only one pair of each kind of unclean animal.
3Take also seven pairs of each kind of bird. Do this so that every kind of animal and bird will be kept alive to reproduce again on the earth.
4Seven days from now I am going to send rain that will fall for forty days and nights, in order to destroy all the living beings that I have made.”
5And Noah did everything that the Lord commanded.
6Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came on the earth.
7He and his wife, and his sons and their wives, went into the boat to escape the flood.
8A male and a female of every kind of animal and bird, whether ritually clean or unclean,
9went into the boat with Noah, as God had commanded.
10Seven days later the flood came.
11When Noah was six hundred years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month all the outlets of the vast body of water beneath the earth burst open, all the floodgates of the sky were opened,
12and rain fell on the earth for forty days and nights.
13On that same day Noah and his wife went into the boat with their three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.
14With them went every kind of animal, domestic and wild, large and small, and every kind of bird.
15A male and a female of each kind of living being went into the boat with Noah,
16as God had commanded. Then the Lord shut the door behind Noah.
17The flood continued for forty days, and the water became deep enough for the boat to float.
18The water became deeper, and the boat drifted on the surface.
19It became so deep that it covered the highest mountains;
20it went on rising until it was about twenty-five feet above the tops of the mountains.
21Every living being on the earth died—every bird, every animal, and every person.
22Everything on earth that breathed died.
23The Lord destroyed all living beings on the earth—human beings, animals, and birds. The only ones left were Noah and those who were with him in the boat.
24The water did not start going down for a hundred and fifty days.