1. Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before Me in this generation.
2. You are to take with you seven pairs, a male and its female, of all the clean animals, and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and its female,
3. and seven pairs, male and female, of the birds of the sky — in order to keep offspring alive on the face of the whole earth.