22 And Noah did all things: as God had commanded him, so he did.

Chapter 7

1 And the Lord said unto Noah, Enter thou and all thy household into the ark, for I have seen thee righteous before me in this generation;

2 And every clean beast thou shalt take seven, male and female, and of unclean cattle two, male and female.

3 And of the birds of the air, seven by seven, male and female, and of all the unclean birds, two male and female, to preserve the seed for all the earth,

4 for after seven days I will pour rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy all that exists that I have created from off the face of the earth.

5 Noah did all that the Lord [God] commanded him.

6 And Noah was six hundred years old, when the flood of water came upon the earth.

7 And Noah, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, entered into the ark out of the waters of the flood.

8 And of the clean fowl, and of the unclean fowl, and of the clean cattle, and of the unclean beasts, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth

9 And two by two, male and female, they went into the ark to Noah, as God had commanded Noah.

10 And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth [27] day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of heaven were opened;

12 And the rain poured down upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 On this very day Noah entered into the ark, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and his sons' three wives with them.

14 They, and all the beasts after their kind, and every beast after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after their kind, and every one that flies after their kind, every bird, every winged one,

15 And they went into the ark unto Noah, two by two, of every flesh that hath the spirit of life.

16 And those who entered into the ark, male and female, of all flesh, entered in, as God had commanded him. And the Lord [God] shut [the ark] behind him.

17 And the flood continued on the earth forty days, and the waters abounded, and lifted up the ark, and it was exalted above the earth.

18 And the waters increased and abounded exceedingly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

19 And the waters of the earth increased exceedingly, so that all the high mountains that are under the whole heaven were covered;