⁴ while Abel, for his part, brought the fatty portion^[a] of the firstlings of his flock.^(A) The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering,

² Of every clean animal, take with you seven pairs, a male and its mate; and of the unclean animals, one pair, a male and its mate; ³ likewise, of every bird of the air, seven pairs, a male and a female, to keep their progeny alive over all the earth. ⁴ For seven days from now I will bring rain down on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and so I will wipe out from the face of the earth every being that I have made.^{(A) 5} Noah complied, just as the Lord had commanded.

The Great Flood. ⁶ Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came upon the earth. ⁷ Together with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, Noah went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.^{(B) 8} Of the clean animals and the unclean, of the birds, and of everything that crawls on the ground,

²⁰ Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and choosing from every clean animal and every clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.