1 The Lord said to Noah, “Go into the boat with your whole family; I have found that you are the only one in all the world who does what is right.
2 Take with you seven pairs of each kind of ritually clean animal, but only one pair of each kind of unclean animal.
3 Take also seven pairs of each kind of bird. Do this so that every kind of animal and bird will be kept alive to reproduce again on the earth.
4 Seven days from now I am going to send rain that will fall for forty days and nights, in order to destroy all the living beings that I have made.”