The Great Flood begins

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky’s windows were opened.

Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then Yahweh shut him in.

In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship—

Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.

It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.

went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.