 noah was six hundred years old when the flood-waters covered the earth noah and his wife and sons and their wives boarded the ship to escape the flood clean and unclean animals birds and all the crawling creatures came in pairs to noah and to the ship male and female just as god had commanded noah in seven days the flood-waters came it was the six hundredth year of noah's life in the second month on the seventeenth day of the month that it happened