Genesis 7:1–12

The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family,f because I have found you righteousg in this generation. 2 Take with you seven pairs of every kind of cleanh animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 3 and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alivei throughout the earth. 4 Seven days from now I will send rainj on the earthk for forty daysl and forty nights,m and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.n”

5 And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.o

6 Noah was six hundred years oldp when the floodwaters came on the earth. 7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the arkq to escape the waters of the flood. 8 Pairs of clean and uncleanr animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, 9 male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.s 10 And after the seven dayst the floodwaters came on the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life,u on the seventeenth day of the second monthv—on that day all the springs of the great deepw burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavensx were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.y