9. two by two they were brought into the ark to Noah, male and female, just as the Lord had instructed Noah.
10. And when seven days had passed, the waters of the great flood inundated the earth.
11. In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great abyss were released, and the floodgates of heaven were opened.
12. And rain came upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.