2. Of every clean animal, take with you seven pairs, a male and its mate; and of the unclean animals, one pair, a male and its mate;
3. likewise, of every bird of the air, seven pairs, a male and a female, to keep their progeny alive over all the earth.
4. For seven days from now I will bring rain down on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and so I will wipe out from the face of the earth every being that I have made.
5. Noah complied, just as the Lord had commanded.
6. Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came upon the earth.
7. Together with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, Noah went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.
8. Of the clean animals and the unclean, of the birds, and of everything that crawls on the ground,
9. two by two, male and female came to Noah into the ark, just as God had commanded him.
10. When the seven days were over, the waters of the flood came upon the earth.
11. In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month: on that dayAll the fountains of the great abyss burst forth,and the floodgates of the sky were opened.
12. For forty days and forty nights heavy rain poured down on the earth.
13. On the very same day, Noah and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of Noah’s sons had entered the ark,
14. together with every kind of wild animal, every kind of tame animal, every kind of crawling thing that crawls on the earth, and every kind of bird.