13 On that day Noah and his wife went into the boat with their three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.
14 They took along every kind of animal, tame and wild, including the birds.
15 Noah took a male and a female of every living creature with him,
16 just as God had told him to do. And when they were all in the boat, the Lord closed the door.
17-18 For 40 days the rain poured down without stopping. And the water became deeper and deeper, until the boat started floating high above the ground.
19-20 Finally, the mighty flood was so deep that even the highest mountain peaks were about seven meters below the surface of the water.
21 Not a bird, animal, reptile, or human was left alive anywhere on earth.