Genesis 7:1–16

The Flood

¹The Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ship with your whole family because I have seen that you alone are righteous among the people of today. ²Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal (a male and a female of each) and one pair of every kind of unclean^aanimal (a male and a female). ³Also, take seven pairs of every kind of bird (a male and a female of each) to preserve animal life all over the earth after the flood. ⁴In seven days I will send rain to the earth for 40 days and 40 nights. I will wipe off the face of the earth every living creature that I have made.” 

⁵So Noah did everything that the Lord commanded him. 

⁶Noah was 600 years old when the flood came to the earth. ⁷Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives went into the ship to escape the floodwaters. ⁸Clean and unclean animals, birds, and creatures that crawl on the ground ⁹came to Noah to go into the ship in pairs (a male and female of each) as God had commanded Noah. 

¹⁰Seven days later the flood came on the earth. ¹¹On the seventeenth day of the second month of the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, all the deep springs burst open. The sky opened, ¹²and rain came pouring down on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights. 

¹³On that same day Noah and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, as well as Noah’s wife and his three daughters-in-law went into the ship. ¹⁴They had with them every type of wild animal, every type of domestic animal, every type of creature that crawls on the earth, and every type of bird (every creature with wings). ¹⁵A pair of every living, breathing animal came to Noah to go into the ship. ¹⁶A male and a female of every animal went in as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord closed the door behind them.