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 40 days and nights, and I will destroy all other living creatures I have made.
5-7 Noah was 600 years old when he went into the boat to escape the flood, and he did everything the Lord had told him to do. His wife, his sons, and his daughters-in-law all went inside with him.
8-9 He obeyed God and took a male and a female of each kind of animal and bird into the boat with him.
10 Seven days later a flood began to cover the earth.
11-12 The water under the earth started gushing out everywhere, the sky opened like windows, and rain poured down for 40 days and nights. All this began on the seventeenth day of the second month of the year.
13 On that day Noah and his wife went into the boat with their three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.