Genesis 7:1-10 ▼

1 Then the LORD told Noah, |Come—you and all your household—into the ark, because I've seen that you alone are righteous in this generation.

2 You are to take with you seven pairs of every clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of the unclean animals, a male and its mate;

3 along with seven pairs of the flying birds, male and female, in order to keep their offspring alive on the surface of all the earth.

4 Seven days from now I'll send rain on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights, and I'll destroy every living creature that I've made.|

5 Noah did everything that the LORD commanded.

6 Noah was 600 years old when water began to flood the earth.

7 Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives entered the ark with him before the flood waters arrived.

8 From both clean and unclean animals, from birds, and from everything that crawls on the ground,

9 two by two, male and female, they entered the ark to join Noah, just as God had commanded.

10 Seven days later, the flooding started.