1. Then Yahweh said to Noah, “Go—you and all your household—into the ark, for I have seen you are righteous before me in this generation.
2. From all the clean animals you must take for yourself seven pairs, a male and its mate. And from the animals that are not clean you must take two, a male and its mate,
3. as well as from the birds of heaven seven pairs, male and female, to keep their kind alive on the face of the earth.
4. For within seven days I will send rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. And I will blot out all the living creatures that I have made from upon the face of the ground.”
5. And Noah did according to all that Yahweh commanded him.
6. Noah was six hundred years old when the flood waters came upon the earth.
7. And Noah and his sons and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.
8. Of clean animals, and of animals which are not clean, and of the birds, and everything that creeps upon the ground,
9. two of each went to Noah, into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
10. And it happened that after seven days the waters of the flood came over the earth.