Into the Ark

1Then Yahweh said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.”

2From every clean animal you shall take for yourself seven pairs, a male and its mate; and from the animals that are not clean, two, a male and its mate.

3Also from the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

4For in seven more days I will make it rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe out every living thing that I have made from the face of the ground.

5And Noah did according to all that Yahweh had commanded him.

6Noah was six hundred years old, and the flood was upon the earth.

7And Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, entered the ark because of the waters of the flood.

8From the clean animals and from the animals that are not clean, and from the birds and everything that creeps on the ground—

9Two by two they came to Noah into the ark, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.