Genesis 7:1–9

The Great Flood

7 Then the aLord said to Noah, b“Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that cyou are righteous before Me in this generation. 2 You shall take with you seven each of every dclean animal, a male and his female; etwo each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female; 3 also seven each of birds of the air, male and female, to keep 1the species alive on the face of all the earth. 4 For after fseven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth gforty days and forty nights, and I will 2destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made.” 5 hAnd Noah did according to all that the Lord commanded him. 6 Noah was isix hundred years old when the floodwaters were on the earth.

7 jSo Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth, 9 two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.