3 Get seven pairs (seven males and seven females) of all the birds. This will allow all these animals to continue living on the earth after the other animals are destroyed.
4 Seven days from now, I will send much rain on the earth. It will rain for 40 days and 40 nights, and I will wipe everything off the face of the earth. I will destroy everything I made.”
5 Noah did everything the Lord told him to do.
6 Noah was 600 years old at the time the rains came.
7 He and his family went into the boat to be saved from the flood. His wife and his sons and their wives were on the boat with him.
8 All the clean animals, all the other animals on the earth, the birds, and everything that crawls on the earth
9 went into the boat with Noah. These animals went into the boat in groups of two, male and female, just as God commanded.