1. The Lord said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
2. You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.
3. Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
4. In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”
5. Noah did everything that the Lord commanded him.
6. Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
7. Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.
8. Clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground