Entering and Leaving the Ark

11) 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 burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened. 12) The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

13) Now it came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried up. 14) In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

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

15) Then God spoke to Noah, saying, 16) "Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives with you.

14) they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, all sorts of birds.

17) "Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth."

15) So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life.

18) So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him. 19) Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by their families from the ark.