Genesis 7:1-9 ▼

1 Then the LORD said to Noah: Go into the ark, you and all your household, for you alone in this generation have I found to be righteous before me.

2 Of every clean animal, take with you seven pairs, a male and its mate; and of the unclean animals, one pair, a male and its mate;

3 likewise, of every bird of the air, seven pairs, a male and a female, to keep their progeny alive over all the earth.

4 For seven days from now I will bring rain down on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and so I will wipe out from the face of the earth every being that I have made.

5 Noah complied, just as the LORD had commanded.

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

7 Together with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, Noah went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.

8 Of the clean animals and the unclean, of the birds, and of everything that crawls on the ground,

9 two by two, male and female came to Noah into the ark, just as God had commanded him.