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.”
5 And Noah did everything that the Lord commanded.
6 Noah was 600 years old when the flood came on the earth.
7 He and his wife, and his sons and their wives, went into the boat to escape the flood.
8 A male and a female of every kind of animal and bird, whether ritually clean or unclean,
9 went into the boat with Noah, as God had commanded.