IAnd YHWH said to Noah, “Come, you and all your household, into an ark, for I’ve seen you as virtuous in front of me in this generation. 2Of all the pure animals, take seven pairs, man and his woman; and of the animals that are not pure, two, man and his woman. 3Also of the birds of the skies seven pairs, male and female, to keep seed alive on the face of the earth. 4Because in seven more days I’ll rain on the earth, forty days and forty nights, and I’ll wipe out all the substance that I’ve made from on the face of the earth.”
5And Noah did according to all that YHWH had commanded him. 6And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood was, water on the earth. 7And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him came to the ark from before the waters of the flood. 8Of the animals that were pure and of the animals that were not pure, and of the birds and everyone that creeps on the ground, 9they came by twos to Noah, to the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And seven days later the waters of the flood were on the earth. 11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the great deep were split open, and the apertures of the skies were opened.* 12And there was rain on the earth, forty days and forty nights. 13In this very day Noah came, and Shem and Ham and Yaphet, Noah’s sons, and Noah’s wife and his sons’ three wives with them to the ark, 14they and all the wild animals by their kind and all the domestic animals by their kind and all the creeping animals that creep on the earth by their kind and all the birds by their kind, all fowl, all winged things. 15And they came to Noah, to the ark, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life, 16and those that came were male and female; some from all flesh came, as God had commanded him. And YHWH closed it for him. 17And the flood was on the earth for forty days, and the waters multiplied and raised the ark, and it was lifted from the earth. 18And the waters grew strong and multiplied very much on the earth, and the ark went on the face of the waters. 19And the waters had grown very, very strong on the earth, so they covered all the high mountains that are under all the skies. 20Fifteen cubits above, the waters grew stronger, and they covered the mountains. 21And all flesh that creep on the earth—of the birds and of the domestic animals and of the wild animals and of all the swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all the humans— expired.** 22Everything that had the breathing spirit of life in its nostrils, everything that was on the ground, died. 23And He wiped out all the substance that was on the face of the earth, from human to animal to creeping thing and to bird of the skies, and they were wiped out from the earth, and just Noah and those who were with him in the ark were left. 24And the water grew strong on the earth a hundred fifty days.