1. And Jehovah said to Noah, Go into the ark, thou and all thy house; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
2. Of all clean beasts thou shalt take to thee by sevens, a male and its female; but of the beasts that are not clean two, a male and its female.
3. Also of the fowl of the heavens by sevens, male and female; to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth.
4. For in yet seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living being which I have made will I destroy from the ground.
5. And Noah did according to all that Jehovah had commanded him.
6. And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was on the earth.
7. And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8. Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowl, and of everything that creeps on the ground,
9. there came two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.