When Noah was 600 years old, 

on the seventeenth day of the second month, 

all the underground waters erupted from the earth, 

and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky. 

The rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights. 

That very day Noah had gone into the boat 

with his wife and his sons…

and their wives.  

…Then the Lord closed the door behind them.

God wiped out every living thing on the earth…

The only people who survived were Noah 

and those with him in the boat.

Genesis 7:11-13; 16, 23