¹¹ When Noah was six hundred years old, the flood started. On the seventeenth day of the second month of that year the ·underground springs [^Lfountains/springs of the deep] ·split [burst] open, and the ·clouds [floodgates; ^Lwindows] in the ·sky [heavens] ·poured out rain [^Lwere opened]. ¹² The rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

¹³ On that same day Noah and his wife, his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth [9:18—10:32], and their wives went into the ·boat [ark].