¹³ On that very day Noah and his sons,^(A) Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.^{(B) 14} 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,^(C) everything with wings. ¹⁵ Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.^{(D) 16} The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah.^(E) Then the Lord shut him in.

¹⁷ For forty days^(F) the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. ¹⁸ The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. ¹⁹ They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered.^{(G) 20} The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.^{[a][b] (H)}