1. The Lord told Noah:Take your whole family with you into the boat, because you are the only one on this earth who pleases me.
10. Seven days later a flood began to cover the earth.
11-12. Noah was six hundred years old when the water under the earth started gushing out everywhere. The sky opened like windows, and rain poured down for forty days and nights. All this began on the seventeenth day of the second month of the year.