In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the
seventeenth day of the second
month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And rain
fell on the earth forty days and
forty nights.
On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and
Japheth, together with his
wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark. They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all
livestock according to their
kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind,
everything with wings. Pairs of
all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark. The animals going in were male and
female of every living
thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.