Now God changes his instructions to Noah to take aboard seven pairs of each clean animal and birds and one pair of each unclean animals. What follows is forty days and nights of deluge. Interestingly, despite what you've been told your entire life, the Bible doesn't say it rained.
Instead, it says the fountains of the earth opened up and that the "windows of the heavens" opened. This doesn't necessarily say rain and may refer to the firmament being a type of dome that separated the waters of the deep and the waters above. See the discussion in Genesis 1 of the concept of a "firmament". Asimov thinks this reference to waters other than rain may refer to a tidal wave. The flood covers the mountains and prevailed for 150 days.
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