⁹ in pairs by males and females, just as God had told him to do. They all went into the ark with him, two by two. ¹⁰ After seven days, the rains began and waters flooded the earth.

¹¹ On the 17th day of the 2nd month in Noah’s 600th year, all of the subterranean waters erupted from the depths of the earth and burst skyward, covering the land. The casements of the heavens cracked open,