1. The Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ship with your whole family because I have seen that you alone are righteous among the people of today.
2. Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal (a male and a female of each) and one pair of every kind of unclean animal (a male and a female).
3. Also, take seven pairs of every kind of bird (a male and a female of each) to preserve animal life all over the earth after the flood.
4. In seven days I will send rain to the earth for 40 days and 40 nights. I will wipe off the face of the earth every living creature that I have made.”
5. So Noah did everything that the Lord commanded him.