1. Then the Lord said to Noah, “I have seen that you are a good man, even among the evil people of this time. So gather your family, and all of you go into the boat.
2. Get seven pairs (seven males and seven females) of every kind of clean animal. And get one pair (one male and one female) of every other animal on the earth. Lead all these animals into the boat with you.
3. Get seven pairs (seven males and seven females) of all the birds. This will allow all these animals to continue living on the earth after the other animals are destroyed.
4. Seven days from now, I will send much rain on the earth. It will rain for 40 days and 40 nights, and I will wipe everything off the face of the earth. I will destroy everything I made.”
5. Noah did everything the Lord told him to do.
6. Noah was 600 years old at the time the rains came.
7. He and his family went into the boat to be saved from the flood. His wife and his sons and their wives were on the boat with him.
8. All the clean animals, all the other animals on the earth, the birds, and everything that crawls on the earth