1 Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before Me in this generation.
2 You are to take with you seven pairs, a male and its female, of all the clean animals, and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and its female,
3 and seven pairs, male and female, of the birds of the sky — in order to keep offspring alive on the face of the whole earth.
4 Seven days from now I will make it rain on the earth 40 days and 40 nights, and I will wipe off from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
5 And Noah did everything that the Lord commanded him.
6 Noah was 600 years old when the flood came and water covered the earth.