1 The Lord told Noah:Take your whole family with you into the boat, because you are the only one on this earth who pleases me.
2 Take seven pairs of every kind of animal that can be used for sacrifice and one pair of all others.
3 Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird with you. Do this so there will always be animals and birds on the earth.
4 Seven days from now I will send rain that will last for forty days and nights, and I will destroy all other living creatures I have made.