10And after seven days, the floodwaters were upon the earth. 11In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on seventeenth day of the second month - on that one day - were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and nights. 13In the same day Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons entered the ark; 14They, and every animal after its kind, and all the cattle and everything that creeps upon the earth after its kind, and every bird, of every sort, after its kind. 15They each went in into the ark with Noah, two and two of all that breathes. 16And these animals went in, male and female of all kinds, as God had commanded: and the LORD shut them in. 17And for forty days the flood was upon the earth; and the waters rose, and lifted the ark, until it was above the earth. 18And the waters continues to rise upon the earth; and the ark floated safely on the surface of the water. 19And the waters continued to rise; and the highest mountain peaks were covered. 20The waters rose fifteen cubits (22.5 feet) higher than the tallest mountain peak; all the earth was covered.

21And everything that moved on land died - birds, cattle, wild animals, everything that creeps on the ground, and every man: 22All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was left on the land, died. 23And every living thing on the face of the ground was destroyed, both man, cattle, creeping things, and the birds of the sky; they were all destroyed from the earth: only Noah, and those that were with him in the ark, remained alive. 24And the waters flooded the earth for a hundred fifty days.