Genesis 7:17-8:3

New International Version

¹⁷ For forty days^(A) 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.^{(B) 20} The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.^{[a][b] (C) 21} Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.^{(D) 22} Everything on dry land that had the breath of life^(E) in its nostrils died. ²³ Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth.^(F) Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.^(G)

²⁴ The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.^(H)

8 But God remembered^(I) Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth,^(J) and the waters receded. ² Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens^(K) had been closed, and the rain^(L) had stopped falling from the sky. ³ The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days^(M) the water had gone down,