11 ¶ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the [a]second month, the seventeenth day of the month, in the same day were all the [b]fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened,

12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 In the selfsame day entered Noah with Shem, and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them into the Ark.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 7:11 Which was about the beginning of May, when all things did most flourish.
  2. Genesis 7:11 Both the waters in the earth did overflow, and also the clouds poured down.

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