1: Next GOD said to Noah, "Now board the ship, you and all your family--out of everyone in this generation, you're the righteous one.
2: "Take on board with you seven pairs of every clean animal, a male and a female; one pair of every unclean animal, a male and a female;
3: and seven pairs of every kind of bird, a male and a female, to insure their survival on Earth.
4: In just seven days I will dump rain on Earth for forty days and forty nights. I'll make a clean sweep of everything that I've made."
5: Noah did everything GOD commanded him.
6: Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters covered the Earth.
7: Noah and his wife and sons and their wives boarded the ship to escape the flood.
8: Clean and unclean animals, birds, and all the crawling creatures
9: came in pairs to Noah and to the ship, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.
10: In seven days the floodwaters came.
11: It was the six-hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month that it happened: all the underground springs erupted and all the windows of Heaven were thrown open.
12: Rain poured for forty days and forty nights.
13: That's the day Noah and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, accompanied by his wife and his sons' wives, boarded the ship.
14: And with them every kind of wild and domestic animal, right down to all the kinds of creatures that crawl and all kinds of birds and anything that flies.
15: They came to Noah and to the ship in pairs--everything and anything that had the breath of life in it,
16: male and female of every creature came just as God had commanded Noah. Then GOD shut the door behind him.
17: The flood continued forty days and the waters rose and lifted the ship high over the Earth.
18: The waters kept rising, the flood deepened on the Earth, the ship floated on the surface.
19: The flood got worse until all the highest mountains were covered
20: -the high water mark reached twenty feet above the crest of the mountains.
21: Everything died. Anything that moved-dead. Birds, farm animals, wild animals, the entire teeming exuberance of life--dead. And all people--dead.
22: Every living, breathing creature that lived on dry land died;
23: he wiped out the whole works-people and animals, crawling creatures and flying birds, every last one of them, gone. Only Noah and his company on the ship lived.
24: The floodwaters took over for 150 days.