1. AND THE Lord said to Noah, Come with all your household into the ark, for I have seen you to be righteous (upright and in right standing) before Me in this generation. [Ps. 27:5; 33:18, 19; II Pet. 2:9.]
2. Of every clean beast you shall receive and take with you seven pairs, the male and his mate, and of beasts that are not clean a pair of each kind, the male and his mate, [Lev. 11.]
3. Also of the birds of the air seven pairs, the male and the female, to keep seed [their kind] alive over all the earth or land.
4. For in seven days I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living substance and thing that I have made I will destroy, blot out, and wipe away from the face of the earth.
5. And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him. [Heb. 11:7.]
6. Noah was 600 years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth or land.
7. And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him went into the ark because of the waters of the flood. [Matt. 24:38; Luke 17:27.]
8. Of clean animals and of animals that are not clean, and of birds and fowls, and of everything that creeps on the ground,
9. There went in two and two with Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10. And after the seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth or land.
11. In the year 600 of Noah's life, in the seventeenth day of the second month, that same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up and burst forth, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened.
12. And it rained upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13. On the very same day Noah and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark,