Genesis 7:1-7

Common English Bible

7 The Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark with your whole household, because among this generation I’ve seen that you are a moral man. ² From every clean animal, take seven pairs, a male and his mate; and from every unclean animal, take one pair, a male and his mate; ³ and from the birds in the sky as well, take seven pairs, male and female, so that their offspring will survive throughout the earth. ⁴ In seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will wipe off from the fertile land every living thing that I have made.”

⁵ Noah did everything the Lord commanded him.

⁶ Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters arrived on earth. ⁷ Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark to escape the floodwaters.