Genesis 6:17-7:5

English Standard Version

¹⁷^(A)For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die. ¹⁸But ^(B)I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you. ¹⁹And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female. ²⁰Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground, according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you to keep them alive. ²¹Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and store it up. It shall serve as food for you and for them.” ²²^(C)Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.

7 Then the Lord said to Noah, ^(D)“Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that ^(E)you are righteous before me in this generation. ²Take with you seven pairs of all ^(F)clean animals,^[a] the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate, ³and seven pairs^[b] of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth. ⁴For in seven days ^(G)I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, ^(H)and every living thing^[c] that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.” ⁵^(I)And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him.