¹⁴ God said to Moses, “I am who I am.^[a] This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am^(A) has sent me to you.’”

¹⁵ God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord,^[b] the God of your fathers^(B)—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob^(C)—has sent me to you.’

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life,^(A) on the seventeenth day of the second month^(B)—on that day all the springs of the great deep^(C) burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens^(D) were opened. ¹² And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.^(E)

¹³ On that very day Noah and his sons,^(F) Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.^{(G) 14} They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind,^(H) everything with wings. ¹⁵ Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.^{(I) 16} The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah.^(J) Then the Lord shut him in.

¹⁷ For forty days^(K) 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.^(L)