11In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that very day, all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates[] of the sky were opened. 12The rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights. 13On that same day Noah, Noah's sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons along with them, entered the ark. 14They went in with every animal according to its kind, all the livestock according to their kinds, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth according to its kind, and everything that flies according to its kind, flying birds of every sort. 15Pairs of all the animals[] that have the breath of life in them went to Noah in the ark. 16A male and female of each animal that breathes went in, just as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut Noah in. 17The flood kept coming on the earth for forty days. The waters became deeper and lifted up the ark until it floated high above the earth. 18The water kept increasing and overwhelmed the earth, and the ark was carried along on the surface of the water. 19The water overwhelmed the earth. All the high mountains that were under the entire sky were covered. 20The waters rose more than twenty feet above the mountains and covered them. 21All living creatures[] that moved on the earth perished, including birds, livestock, wild animals, every creeping thing that crawls on the earth, and all mankind. 22Everything that breathed the breath of life through its nostrils, that is, everything that was on the dry land, died. 23Every living thing that was on the face of the earth was wiped out, including mankind, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They all were wiped off the earth. Only Noah was left, as well as those who were with him in the ark. 24The waters overwhelmed the earth for one hundred fifty days. 81God remembered Noah, as well as all the animals and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. So God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided. 2The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were also closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained. 3The waters kept receding from the earth. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters had decreased. 4In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5The waters receded continuously until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.
6Then at the end of forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark. 7He sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth. 8Then he sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground, 9but the dove found no place to rest its foot, and it returned to him in the ark, because there was water on the surface of the whole earth. Noah reached out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back to him in the ark. 10He waited another seven days. Then he sent the dove out of the ark again. 11The dove came back to him at evening, and there in its mouth was an olive leaf it had just plucked. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth. 12He waited another seven days and sent the dove out again. This time it did not return to him anymore.
