"When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, the underground waters burst forth on the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky. The rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights. But Noah had gone into the boat that very day with his wife and his sons--Shem, Ham, and Japheth--and their wives. With them on the boat were pairs of every kind of breathing animal--domestic and wild, large and small--along with birds and flying insects of every kind. Two by two they came into the boat, male and female, Just as God had commanded. Then the Lord shut them in." ~ Genesis chapter 7. Done with psp7 & photofiltre. Many thanks to Classylady for the penguins, bears, hippos, jaquars and meerkats! :-) Hope you enjoy!