Genesis 7:1-9 ▼

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.