1. Then the Lord said to Noah, “I have seen that you are the best man among the people of this time. So you and your family go into the boat.
2. Take with you seven pairs, each male with its female, of every kind of clean animal. And take one pair, each male with its female, of every kind of unclean animal.
3. Take seven pairs of all the birds of the sky, each male with its female. This will allow all these animals to continue living on the earth after the flood.
4. Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth. It will rain 40 days and 40 nights. I will destroy from the earth every living thing that I made.”
5. Noah did everything that the Lord commanded him.
6. Noah was 600 years old when the flood came.