³ And Yahweh said, “My Spirit shall not abide with humankind forever in that he is also flesh. And his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”

7 Then^[a] Yahweh said to Noah, “Go—you and all your household—into the ark, for I have seen you are righteous before me in this generation. ² From all the clean animals you must take for yourself seven pairs,^[b] a male and its mate. And from the animals that are not clean you must take two, a male and its mate, ³ as well as from the birds of heaven^[c] seven pairs,^[d] male and female, to keep their kind alive^[e] on the face of the earth. ⁴ For within seven days^[f] I will send rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. And I will blot out all the living creatures that I have made from upon the face of the ground.” ⁵ And Noah did according to all that Yahweh commanded him.

The Flood

⁶ Noah was six hundred years old^[g] when^[h] the flood waters came upon the earth.

¹³ And it happened that, in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters dried up from upon the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked. And behold, the face of the ground was dried up.

²⁸ And Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.