3 Take seven pairs of all the birds of the sky, each male with its female. This will allow all these animals to continue living on the earth after the flood.
4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth. It will rain 40 days and 40 nights. I will destroy from the earth every living thing that I made.”
5 Noah did everything that the Lord commanded him.
6 Noah was 600 years old when the flood came.
7 He and his wife and his sons and their wives went into the boat. They went in to escape the waters of the flood.
8 The clean animals, the unclean animals, the birds and everything that crawls on the ground
9 came to Noah. They went into the boat in groups of two, male and female. This was just as God had commanded Noah.