Genesis 7:1–9

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.