Genesis 7:1-9 ▼

1 And God said to Noah, |Come with all of your household into the vessel, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

2 You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.

3 Also of the clean flying creatures of the sky, seven pairs, a male and a female, and of all the unclean flying creatures, one pair, a male and a female, to preserve their offspring on the surface of all the earth.

4 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground.|

5 Noah did everything that God commanded him.

6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.

7 Noah went into the vessel with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.

8 Clean animals, animals that are not clean, flying creatures, and everything that crawls on the ground

9 went by pairs to Noah into the vessel, male and female, as God commanded Noah.