Genesis 7:1-12 ▼

1 Then Yahweh said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this generation.

2 You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean, two, a male and his female;

3 also of the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of all the earth.

4 For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made.”

5 And Noah did according to all that Yahweh had commanded him.

6 Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water came upon the earth.

7 Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood.

8 Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that creeps on the ground,

9 by twos they came to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

10 Now it happened after the seven days, that the water of the flood came upon the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the great deep split open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.

12 Then the rain came upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.