1. The Lord said to Noah, “Go into the boat with your whole family; I have found that you are the only one in all the world who does what is right.
2. Take with you seven pairs of each kind of ritually clean animal, but only one pair of each kind of unclean animal.
3. Take also seven pairs of each kind of bird. Do this so that every kind of animal and bird will be kept alive to reproduce again on the earth.
4. Seven days from now I am going to send rain that will fall for forty days and nights, in order to destroy all the living beings that I have made.”
5. And Noah did everything that the Lord commanded.
6. Noah was 600 years old when the flood came on the earth.
7. He and his wife, and his sons and their wives, went into the boat to escape the flood.
8. A male and a female of every kind of animal and bird, whether ritually clean or unclean,
9. went into the boat with Noah, as God had commanded.
10. Seven days later the flood came.
11. When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month all the outlets of the vast body of water beneath the earth burst open, all the floodgates of the sky were opened,
12. and rain fell on the earth for forty days and nights.