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.
2. Take seven pairs of every kind of animal that can be used for sacrifice and one pair of all others.
3. Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird with you. Do this so there will always be animals and birds on the earth.
4. Seven days from now I will send rain that will last for forty days and nights, and I will destroy all other living creatures I have made.
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.
17-18. For forty days the rain poured down without stopping. And the water became deeper and deeper, until the boat started floating high above the ground.
19-20. Finally, the mighty flood was so deep that even the highest mountain peaks were about seven metres below the surface of the water.
22-23. The Lord destroyed everything that breathed. Nothing was left alive except Noah and the others in the boat.