¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life,^(A) on the seventeenth day of the second month^(B)—on that day all the springs of the great deep^(C) burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens^(D) were opened. ¹² And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.^(E)

² Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens^(A) had been closed, and the rain^(B) had stopped falling from the sky.