1. And יהוה said to Noaḥ, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation.
2. “Of all the clean beasts take with you seven pairs, a male and his female; and of the beasts that are unclean two, a male and his female;
3. and of birds of the heavens seven pairs, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth.
4. “For after seven more days I am sending rain on the earth, forty days and forty nights, and shall wipe from the face of the earth all that stand that I created.”
5. And Noaḥ did according to all that יהוה commanded him.
6. Now Noaḥ was six hundred years old when the flood-waters were on the earth.
7. And Noaḥ and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.