Genesis 7:1-9 ▼

1 Then the LORD 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 seven pairs of every clean animal, a male and his female; and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and his female;

3 also of the birds of the sky, seven pairs, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

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

5 So Noah acted in accordance with everything that the LORD 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, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the waters of the flood.

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

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