Genesis 7:1-9 ▼

1 The LORD said to Noah, |Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.

2 You must take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, the male and its mate, two of every kind of unclean animal, the male and its mate,

3 and also seven of every kind of bird in the sky, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of the earth.

4 For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.|

5 And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.

6 Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

7 Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives because of the floodwaters.

8 Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,

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