After seven days the floodwaters swept over the earth.
I myself am going to flood the earth with water that will destroy everything that breathes. Every living thing everywhere on earth will die.
In seven days I'm going to make it rain for forty days and nights. I'm going to wipe out from the surface of the earth all the living creatures I made.”
went into the ark with Noah. They came in pairs, male and female, just as God had told Noah.
They were taken before their time; all they had built was washed away.
People went on eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day Noah went into the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
