3. Also, take seven pairs of every kind of bird (a male and a female of each) to preserve animal life all over the earth after the flood.
4. In seven days I will send rain to the earth for 40 days and 40 nights. I will wipe off the face of the earth every living creature that I have made.”
5. So Noah did everything that the Lord commanded him.
6. Noah was 600 years old when the flood came to the earth.
7. Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives went into the ship to escape the floodwaters.
8. Clean and unclean animals, birds, and creatures that crawl on the ground
9. came to Noah to go into the ship in pairs (a male and female of each) as God had commanded Noah.