Genesis 7:7–16

⁷And Noah with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.^{* 8}Of clean animals and of animals that are not clean and of birds and of everything that creeps on the ground, ⁹two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah. ¹⁰And after seven days the waters of the flood came on the earth.

¹¹In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.^{* 12}The rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.^{* 13}On the very same day Noah with his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons entered the ark,^{* 14}they and every wild animal of every kind and all domestic animals of every kind and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth and every bird of every kind.^{z 15}They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.^{* 16}And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him, and the Lord shut him in.^*