Genesis 7:7–16

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

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

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

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

¹¹In the ^asix hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all ^bthe fountains of the great deep burst open, and the ¹floodgates of the sky were opened.

^12aThe rain ¹fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

¹³On the very same day ^aNoah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark,

¹⁴they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after ¹their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, ²all sorts of birds.

¹⁵So they went into the ark to Noah, ^aby twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life.

¹⁶Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and the Lord closed it behind him.