He was six hundred years old when the flood began on the earth.  And then Noah entered in and his sons, his wife, and the wives of his sons, all into the ark to eschew the waters of the flood.  Of all the beasts and the fowls, and of all that moved and had life on earth, male and female, Noah took in to him as our Lord had bidden.  And seven days after they were entered, the water began to increase.  The wells of the abysms were broken, and the cataracts of heaven were opened, that is to say the clouds, and it rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.  And the ark was elevate and borne upon the waters on height above the mountains and hills, for the water was grown higher fifteen cubits above all the mountains, that it should purge and wash the filth of the air.  Then was consumed all that was on the earth living, man, woman, and beast and birds.  And all that ever bare life, so that nothing abode upon the earth, for the water was fifteen cubits above the highest mountain of the earth.  And when Noah was entered he shut the door fast without forth, and limed it with glue.

And so the waters abode elevate in height an hundred and fifty days from the day that Noah entered in.  And our Lord then remembered Noah and all them that were in the ark with him, and also on the beasts and fowls, and ceased the waters.  And the wells and cataracts were closed, and the rains were prohibited, and forbidden to rain no more.  The seventh month, the twenty-seventh day of the month, the ark rested on the hills of Armenia.  The tenth month, of the first day of the month, the tops of the hills appeared first.  After these forty days after the lessing of the waters, Noah opened the window and desired sore to have tidings of ceasing of the flood.  And sent out a raven for to have tidings, and when he was gone he returned no more again, for peradventure she found some dead carrion of a beast swimming on the water, and lighted thereon to feed her and was left there.  After this he sent out a dove which flew out, and when she could find no place to rest ne set her foot on, she returned unto Noah and he took her in.  Yet then were not the tops of the hills bare.  And seven days after he sent her out again, which at even returned, bearing a branch of an olive tree, burgeoning, in her mouth.  And after other seven days he sent her again, which came no more again.

Then in the year of Noah six hundred and one, the first day of the month, Noah opened the covering of the ark and saw that the earth was dry, but he durst not go out, but abode the commandment of our Lord.  The second month, the twenty-seventh day of the month, our Lord said to Noah:  Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy sons and the wives of thy sons.  He commanded them to go conjointly out which disjointly entered, and let go out with them all the beasts and fowls living, and all the reptiles, every each after his kind and gender, to whom our Lord said:  Grow ye and multiply upon the earth.  Then Noah issued