Seven days from now I am going to send rain that will fall for forty days and nights, in order to destroy all the living beings that I have made."

The flood continued for forty days, and the water became deep enough for the boat to float.

It became so deep that it covered the highest mountains;

I am going to send a flood on the earth to destroy every living being. Everything on the earth will die,

Even before their time had come, they were washed away by a flood.

In the days before the flood people ate and drank, men and women married, up to the very day Noah went into the boat;

yet they did not realize what was happening until the flood came and swept them all away. That is how it will be when the Son of Man comes.

Everybody kept on eating and drinking, and men and women married, up to the very day Noah went into the boat and the flood came and killed them all.