Genesis 7:1-10 ▼

1 Then the LORD said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before me in this generation.

2 You are to take with you seven pairs, a male and its female, of all the clean animals, and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and its female,

3 and seven pairs, male and female, of the birds of the sky—in order to keep offspring alive throughout the earth.

4 Seven days from now I will make it rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing I have made I will wipe off the face of the earth.”

5 And Noah did everything that the LORD commanded him.

6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came and water covered the earth.

7 So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives entered the ark because of the floodwaters.

8 From the animals that are clean, and from the animals that are not clean, and from the birds and every creature that crawls on the ground,

9 two of each, male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, just as God had commanded him.

10 Seven days later the floodwaters came on the earth.