^{11 Ref} In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened,

^{12 Ref} and the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights.

^{13 Ref} In this self-same day went in Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, unto the ark;

^{14 Ref} they, and every living creature after its kind, and every beast after its kind, and every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird -- every wing.

^{15 Ref} And they come in unto Noah, unto the ark, two by two of all the flesh in which `is' a living spirit;

^{16 Ref} and they that are coming in, male and female of all flesh, have come in as God hath commanded him, and Jehovah doth close `it' for him.

^{17 Ref} And the deluge is forty days on the earth, and the waters multiply, and lift up the ark, and it is raised up from off the earth;

^{18 Ref} and the waters are mighty, and multiply exceedingly upon the earth; and the ark goeth on the face of the waters.

^{19 Ref} And the waters have been very very mighty on the earth, and covered are all the high mountains which `are' under the whole heavens;

^{20 Ref} fifteen cubits upwards have the waters become mighty, and the mountains are covered;