The Flood

1 Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be arighteous before Me in this 1time.

2 “You shall take 1with you of every aclean animal 2by 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 1sky, 2by sevens, male and female, to keep 3offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

4 “For after aseven more days, I will send rain on the earth bforty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land cevery living thing that I have made.”

5 aNoah did according to all that the Lord had commanded him.

6 Now Noah was asix hundred years old when the flood of water 1came upon the earth.

7 Then aNoah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood.

8 aOf clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that creeps on the ground,

9 there went into the ark to Noah 1by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

10 It came about after athe seven days, that the water of the flood 1came upon the earth.