1. And the Lord said to him: "Enter the ark, you and all your house. For I have seen you to be just in my sight, within this generation.
2. From all the clean animals, take seven and seven, the male and the female. Yet truly, from animals that are unclean, take two and two, the male and the female.
3. But also from the birds of the air, take seven and seven, the male and the female, so that offspring may be saved upon the face of the whole earth.
4. For from that point, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. And I will wipe away every substance that I have made, from the surface of the earth."
5. Therefore, Noah did all things just as the Lord had commanded him.
6. And he was six hundred years old when the waters of the great flood inundated the earth.